The photographs on this film almost feel like a photo-story, it’s so easy to build a narrative around them. However, one of the most interesting things about this series was the fact that this was clearly a big celebration but the film was never developed, and I believe it was shot a few years ago. There are also photographs taken at Christmas at the start of the roll (which carries on from a film I’ll be posting next week, see the teaser at the end of this post). The shots on this roll really embody the snapshot aesthetic that so many photographers are emulating in their work: candid, saturated and an almost brutal use of flash.


The whole series can be found on Flickr but here are my favourite images from this film:

I find it quite interesting that I have no connection to the people and events in these photographs but I am the first person to ever see these photographs, especially considering how they depict times of celebration and family events, which are inevitably personal to the people involved.


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And this is the ‘teaser’. It’s an index print from the other film I received from the same person. Unfortunately I managed to leave the actual image files on a mac at uni and I won’t be able to get those back until Monday. So in the meantime I will leave you with this. Some of the best photographs I’ve received are on this roll, I’m looking forward to being able to show you the full sized scans.

Would you have chosen these images from this roll? Comments on my choices or on anything else are welcome!