LF: Do you prefer film over digital? If so, why? NP: Yes! There are several reasons why I do, but I’m going to focus on two of them. The first one is because there’s something magical about film. I can’t even explain what it is. It may be the colours, the grain, the texture... I find the look of film really beautiful, while I usually can’t see any beauty or so much beauty in digital pictures. In my opinion, film produces this different look, this special feeling that you just can’t get with a digital camera or with photo editors. Next, when you take a film picture, you take it because you want that moment to be with you, because it’s important to you. Digital photography will never understand such thing, because you get used to taking lots of photographs and then delete the ones you don’t like. Henri Cartier-Bresson said it before and better than I will ever do, “to me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event”.
LOST FREEDOM february 2012
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