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The prints, now mounted on aluminium “dibond” are installed on hoardings which border the site I documented.

The prints, each 1.5 x 1 metre in size, are stacked after having an anti-vandal coating applied.

It was a moving moment as I watched this enormous print emerge.

However, the project did lead to the commissioning of a set of aluminium Dibond prints to adorn the hoardings used to secure the site, which was a great outcome for an entirely self-instigated project. Digital photography had almost completely replaced film for commissioned work, and as I outline in that article, I tested the waters with a large, mixed bag of expired film of varying types and formats that I managed to acquire from helpful industry contacts.įast forward to the end of 2019 and I could no longer access Saxonvale as it had been acquired for development and was boarded out.

With that project, I was inching my way back into film after a 20-year hiatus. My first major foray into film for a personal project was with “Saxonvale: What Happened Here”, the study of one brownfield site in my hometown, which I made over a two-year period and wrote about here on EMULSIVE back in 2019.

Used Film Roulette is a fun game to play when little is at stake.

This very question is the subject of this article: when exactly is the right time to use expired film vs fresh film? Additionally, there is the choice of factory fresh or expired (in my case, well beyond use-by date). Within film photography there are additional choices over digital formats: shooting colour, black and white, negative (print film) or slide (reversal). Personally, I tend to stick with film wherever possible because my client work is all shot on digital, and I like to keep the separation between the two areas of my work.

The joy of a personal project is that no one has commissioned it, so no one has expectations of the outcome and you can approach it any way you want – film, digital, moving image, sound, or even a mixture of all of the above it’s all fair game.

It is pretty well documented now that personal projects are a valuable vehicle for a photographer to pursue ideas and expand their creativity. EMULSIVE Santa match confirmations have been sent out to this year's 850 players! If you have any questions about your match or the process, please reach out via Elfster ASAP.