Here, the appearance of film photos is the crucial factor, rather than the photographic act itself. Today, the popular Huji app can lend digital photos the look of shots taken on a disposable camera, giving them a warm, saturated glow and even a 1998 timestamp in the corner. There is a film “aesthetic” that users of social media have always gravitated towards – filters were the norm in early Instagram, for instance, designed to emulate the grainy, golden-hour feel of 35mm film or vintage Polaroids. Many factors are drawing young people to film photography, but primarily it’s to do with nostalgia. Photos from a good roll can serve as a time capsule incorrectly loading a camera can amount to an expensive pile of nothing. While high-quality digital photos can be captured in bursts via our phones, film photography is more precarious – there is a grit to the images, and an uncertainty baked into the process. Those at the younger end might have been born in a post-film world, but are now eager to step into the past. “Even though they may have been shooting film now for a few years, they’ve certainly not had hands-on experience”. “ most of them, this is often their first encounter with a darkroom,” he tells me. The studio also runs analogue photography courses, and he tells me that the vast majority of people who take part fall into the 20 to 35 age bracket. Phillip Grey works at Darkroom London, a community photography darkroom in north London. Film photography, whether taken on a cheap disposable camera, a fancy vintage model, or a new, pastel-coloured model from Urban Outfitters, is just another analogue artform seeing a resurgence among Gen Z. Taken over the four years since I first discovered analogue photography, these photos are hazy and often out of focus, yet enable feelings and moods to flood back far more than an iPhone ever could.Īs the imminent return of HMV to Oxford Street and the horrifying re-emergence of low-rise jeans can attest to, we’re firmly in an age of Nineties nostalgia. I feel the tangible weight of the book in my hand and flick through soft images of my friends and family, all taken on a second-hand point-and-shoot camera from 1998. For real reminiscing, I turn to the albums I’ve collated since starting shooting on film. I’ve tried to store them in my phone, but they sit there unloved, taking up space in cloud storage and little in my mind. Film photos are hazy and often out of focus, yet enable feelings and moods to flood back far more than an iPhone ever could (iStock)Įvery day, I use the camera attached to my phone to capture memories and feelings – yet never quite achieve it.
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