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Taras Prohasko
Look
Sometimes, in order to draw attention to something talked about, the advice is – look, so, look… Strange thing. The more people snap more pictures with better and more affordable equipment, the more aware we are of a dearth of both images and the people who shoot them (we can be just as precise by saying take them - as take here means to "move something off of something else", usually the surface of a plane). Look – ideally a minimum of two words should soon appear, each referring to different kinds of photography ...
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Aleksandr Glyadyelov

My insight, or why do I choose film

Many years ago, at the time of early space exploration and my early childhood, we would make white shiny rockets from small rolls of photographic film and foil.  They would randomly rush about city courtyards, driving themselves into the nearby sky; leaving behind trails of romantically pungent smoke. Since then the sky has become distant and film - safe. It no longer burns. It is now good only for taking photographs. That is what I do, and advise others who are ready for such advice, to do the same. There are indeed those who believe that film is long gone. No need to dissuade them. It's just a pity that we can't launch rockets anymore. I’d really like that.
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