Feelings I Haven’t Felt In a While

New experiments, new endeavors

Photography by Reylia Slaby

Feelings I haven't felt in a while have come to pay me a visit.

Photography, for a long time, had become less to me for some reason. I don't know when the life disappeared. When the magic dissipated, dissolved into the rushed schedule, the panic of perfection. It has been a while, since that joy, the absolute pleasure of taking a picture was there.

Part of it could be contributed to the fact that these days, my affinity and patience with the digital medium has been growing thin. As cameras advanced, it seems that my interest was left behind.

While I have been working within the digital realm for over ten years, there is a disconnect that I’ve been feeling. The reality that digital seems to paint was not the one I was experiencing when I took the photo. The light didn’t feel like that, the shadows weren’t that color. I don’t feel like I’m returning back to that moment in time. And for me that recreation, or that building upon that moment is almost more important than the moment itself.

And so, as a consequence, I am driving into the film photography world. I am finally seeing what photography can do for me. I am finally forced to be technical, to work on the technical side, rather than allow the camera to work for me, I now have to…