As much as I love photography, there is one thing I always said I will never shoot: Weddings. No offence to any wedding photographer. I don’t think weddings are too simple or too boring to shoot. Quite the opposite: They are so diverse and complicated and there is no second try, so I never thought about myself to be fit to shoot them. But then one of my best friends decided to marry and their wedding photographer could not cover the civil wedding. She asked me to cover for him and I said that I am not going to do that. But after a lot of begging and threatening to just give someone a small camera and be done with I gave in. In preparation I decided to take my old medium format camera with me to make just a few additional shots with a vintage look.
But I am not here to talk about wedding photography. I am here because after the wedding I had to send in the film to develop. Somewhere in the back of my mind was a lingering thought: Don’t I have some old exposed but undeveloped film laying around? After a quick search I found a box with about 10 films or so; some 35mm, some 120, some rolls, some in color and a lot in black and withe. I put everything in a box added some padding and most importantly some Swiss chocolate (I learned that this makes your pictures so much better) and sent them off to Carmencita Film Lab in Spain.
I knew that some of these films must have been exposed around 15 years ago. So I was not expecting a lot. My skills back then still had a lot to improve (not that they don’t still have to improve a lot), but also storing exposed film for such a long time deteriorates the material.
When I got the link with the developed and scanned images I was super surprised what pictures came out of this. I had no memory of what or whom I shot back then. There are pictures from events I still remember vividly like my first ride from the Ammertenspitz down the Schaafstal and others I have no idea what the occasion was nor was I in contact with some of the people portrayed for what feels like an eternity. So without further ado I present you some of the treasures I found.
Snow
People
Landscape and Urban
