The last two days haven’t been easy. They don’t end with the early onset of darkness this time of year, but rather continue until the early morning, and only with the appearance of sunlight does a new day dawn. Well, it’s only 36 hours of nonstop madness, but it feels like a week or even a month. I started working on the photos for this post and was interrupted by sirens warning of another ballistic missile attack. This all quickly becomes routine. I don’t have any bunker or bomb shelter in my living place, so have to go to the public one, located not far from my house. To run there every 30-60 minutes is sounds too strange for me. So, i just stay here, continue working, listening music and drinking coffee (or beer). At least i have something distracting from the bigger distraction.

But enough of emotions and actuality. I just put my attention that my last post with the images exposed with Holga i published exactly one year ago. In march. It was a roll number XVI. Since those days I exposed a few rolls for this project i photograph and develop with the combo – Holga camera plus Fomapan 100-200-400 plus semi stand developing process in Rodinal. All these results are not about the digital media crispy quality and high density pixels perfection. It’s about non-perfection in the (and gain missiles attack alert…) wider understanding of this term. For me, personally, perfection is easy and… boring. And I’m not trying to convert no-one to this almost religious conviction and “faith”. I remember this dark period of the Instagram start, when many tried to use the built-in filters with the goal to get this effect of the nostalgic imperfection. Some of these found their self using the real imperfection media, the other returned back to the megapikels crispism.

Don’t get me wrong. I use my digital cameras very often. I’m not a photography media racist :-). But i love to use the old, real stuff. Like the second hand vintage denim jeans. Like 40 years old Made In Japan Fender guitar. Or 25 years old Fender tubes amplifier. Not a long list, but I’m not really such a dinosaur.

Some of the images from this roll are OK. Some of these are epic (for me). Sure everyone would pick something different. I found a lot of the big black dots across the bright areas of most of the images in two or three recently developed Fomapan rolls. I need to check this Fomapan with different developer. and to check this Rodinal with other film brand. It’s not boring at all.