NEGATIVE FILM
“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”— Robert Adams
As a kid born in the late 90’s, my childhood memories were mostly built up from rolls of negatives film. But as the technology getting more advanced, and everyone can shoot images through their phones, it seems like a photo has became cheaper day by day. In year 2016, I found a Yashica FX-3 super with a 50mm prime lens, inside a cupboard full of toys in my house. It was completely moulded and broken. When I asked my parents whose camera is this, they have no idea, and so it became my new toy.
Story Behind My Negative Films
I wasn’t always wanted to become a photographer, until I found this "negative film". It was made with paper and cotton, and what surprised me is that there were about 10 "photos" laid inside. According to the date I wrote on these "photos", it should be "taken" on year 2004, which when I was only 10 years old.
So, how did it happen? As far as I can recall back, I did actually made a “camera” back to when I was a kid. Although it’s now out of no where, but I used to take “pictures” of my classmates and draw out their portraits in those days.
Anyway, I must admit that I couldn’t recognise all of these faces anymore, except for one girl in the blue uniform. Her name is Yi Lin Kao, and she was once my best friend, though unfortunately, we’ve lost contact after graduated from our primary school.
But still, I’m glad that I kept my childhood memories tightly in this "negative film" for more than one decade, and I guess this is what I called "the valuable pictures".
