The first stage and the first years of the project were during my children’s childhood the second stage would deal with adolescence. In that sense, my second decision was to choose the pastel colors of Kodak Portra 400 to define the character of the project in its second stage.
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To me, photography in color is like entering a new and unknown world, full of difficulties, which forces me to find a new way of photographing. The difficulty of color, is that life is in color, and make the difference is very complicated. The first one was to switch from black and white to color, after so much time photographing in black and white I thought I was ready to face color, which would certainly be the biggest intellectual challenge. Those are the reasons for which I decided to rethink my project and switch completely to analog, but in order to do that I still had to make several important decisions. Where are my digital photos from 2000? Am I sure I can still read those almost 20-year-old hard drives and CDs? Does the company that backed up my photos in the cloud still exist – and will it in another 20 years? In addition, documentation is another big advantage of analogic for me. Returning to it would mean the challenge I needed. Analog photography is more difficult, but I think it can somehow make some photographers happier. Then I remembered how much I liked shooting with my old analog camera, and how demanding it was. I needed something to help me avoid the mechanical simplicity of photography. However, that is the key, that intimate satisfaction for the work done how happy we are doing what we do. Of course, it is a value that only counts for us. The complex and demanding process is what bring real value to the result. It is not about the quality, it is about the process. Photographing had become like making a soup using an instant soup envelope, but I wanted to make a good homemade soup. Even if new situations arose, I felt that I had already gone through all that. I had already solved all the technical challenges and made all the photos I wanted to make. However, as time went by, digital photography became too simple for me, after 3 years I started to get bored and I thought I had to renew the project, both intellectually and technically. It was not difficult to find some digital cameras that met those requirements, first I used a Nikon P6000 and then an Olympus XZ-2, both of which I used with the zone focus technique.Īt the beginning, every project is a big challenge, both technically and intellectually, but little by little, we start to become experts in what we do, which does not mean we are doing a great job. I needed a camera that was small enough to be carried at all times, discreet not to disturb the scene, with a wide angle lens to capture the subject in its environment, a bright lens to shoot indoors, a small sensor to maximize depth of field and as fast as lightning to shoot. I uploaded some of my photos to Instagram here javiermartinezdelgueįor this project, the choice of camera was critical. The project was born with the birth of my children, but since 2015 I switched to black and white and I started to work on it as a project with a sense of its own. Even though digital photography became my workhorse, I always kept an analog camera on my desk that I used very occasionally, that camera seemed to fill a certain gap that I could not fill with the digital camera.Ĭurrently in my photography, there is only room for one photographic project: “The Family Book”.
I was taking out several rolls a week and had everything printed but suddenly there was no more need to spend money on buying rolls, having them developed and copied, it seemed like a win-win game. Initially the shift to digital had a purely economic reason. However, by early 2000 the benefits of digital photography were impossible to ignore. When I started with photography, there was only film, I grew up with a photographer father in the 80s and my first camera was an old Voigtlander. In 2018, I decided I would once again use film exclusively in my personal projects.
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