Film Photographer Spotlight: Justine Salzet
Name: Justine Salzet
Age: 24 years old
Location: Paris, France
Camera: Praktica MTL3 / Canon EOS 1000F / La Sardina (Lomography)
Favourite film: Kodak Ektar, Lomography Color Negative, Kodak Elite Chrome, Fuji Provia (and it’s a bit of a risk but I also love using expired film)
Justine on why she shoots film:
“As far as I remember I always shoot film. It began when I was six and my parents offered me a little camera for children, analog was the only way to take pictures and we were not flooded by pictures. People could really take time to shoot and I remember afternoons watching photographies with my family. That’s what I don’t want to loose, the photography as an object, something which really takes your life on a break, and when you watch it, it brings you back exactly where you were at this moment, what happened before, and what happened next. It’s like a trip into the past! When I grow up, I did cinema studies and I really love the grain and composition of some movies like Jarmusch or Gus Van Sant movies. Shooting with film helps me to show people how I see the world and it also forces me to a requirement: I have to train my eye, and train myself to feel the moment, this unique moment where you shoot something or someone with an idea but you also have to let accident enter in the process because you have no idea what you’ve got, you can only imagine it. And when you get the developed film back and see you nailed it, there is no better feeling! Even if it’s not like you want, this part of surprises, sometimes what could seems to be imperfections can be more interesting than what you expected first.
I still shoot film because it creates an atmosphere of trust, you can’t cheat with analog, So take this old camera in your grand-parents attics and go shoot films!”
About Justine’s portfolio:
‘It was my first big escape and one of my dreams to go to Iceland. I went there with my boyfriend and we had a lot of adventures. Landscapes were totally breath taking, and that’s what I wanted to show in my pictures. Nature is omnipresent, savage and there is a multitude of different landscapes. I try to show that and I also want to show these like places of a dream, kind of surreal places where you can imagine yourself, pictures of an imaginary world where you can do whatever you want because there is no one to judge you. You are here, alone with the nature and you can stop for a moment and think. Being there was so inspiring, every road take you to something new, something you weren’t prepare for. And when you finally walk near human installations, nature is so powerful that it’s like a dream because you just ask yourself why is this house here?“
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