Minolta SRT 101

Mookie Brooks, about styles money can't buy.
Mookie Brooks

Mookie Brooks, about styles money can't buy.

"I really don't enjoy digital photography, it's too real, too precise" Tell us about yourself. I'm Dominique « Mookie » Brooks, I'm 21 and study engineering in France. I grew up in NYC, moved to Paris with my mom when I was 12. I got both passports, I can watch both football. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My grandpa was always using film, I always preferred it to digital stuff. He had a Minolta SRT 101, now it's mine. I really don't enjoy digital photography, it's t

Return to Analog in the Digital Age
Calvin Bailey

Return to Analog in the Digital Age

Written By Calvin Bailey. Film is on its way back. What exactly it is about film that makes me excited every time I load a new roll into my 35mm is hard to say, but I am not adverse to educated guesses. For me, and for many others, as I am inclined to believe, film exists on two different stages, which in some funny way complement each other. At one stage, film exists as a clear memory of trips to the chemist, index charts, family holidays, and as something gone by. Nostalgic as this interpre