I am certainly stressed of living through historical events, but one thing that has been very important to me has been making art as therapy. Photography as a medium is the foundation of preserving memory, through fragmented frames captured through time. I have been photographing almost compulsively to deal with depression and anxiety like how someone gets addicted to going to the gym or something. Film photography is especially appealing to me, for the act of taking a film photo. It is very easy to replicate a film “look” on digital and certainly less expensive, but shooting film is a medium that I have found therapeutic and consistently satisfying aesthetically. Not to mention for archival purposes, having a physical thing you can touch and preserve as negatives, countless times have I had hard drives fail and lose photos.
I am in the habit of shooting, developing and scanning all my photos, as a curative practice. I would eventually like to transition in to complete analog workflow, by spending time editing contact sheets and making prints in a darkroom. I plan to shoot as much film as possible while I can, because I am not certain of the sustainability of analog photography. I hope it lasts forever, but am not sure. So shoot as much film as possible I would say.
