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| Amber T200 | Olympus Mju ii |
I don't know, I just really like garbage I guess. Whenever I travel, I find the biggest pile of garbage and use multiple frames on it. There's something sadly interesting about things discarded, left out to be taken away and to be forgotten about. It's ugly and smelly and colorful and there's no shortage of it in NYC. I was in heaven.
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| Kodak Gold 200 | Olympus Mju ii |
The looks I get from people when I push through a crowd to snap a picture of a steaming pile of trash varies from amusement to horrified. Listen, I don't know what the compulsion is, I just have it. Our garbage says so much about us. What we eat, drink, consume a lot of. The logos and branding on garbage tells time -- what era it's from and how long it's been around. On the streets of Manhattan, all the trash is brand new.
Over the last summer, I spent a lot of time walking around the swampy heat, mesmerized by it all. Trash cans were full and more trash were placed on top. There were gravity defying placements that could have only been achieved by Jenga masters.
We are so wasteful, all of us. We can recycle to our hearts content but it'll never make up for the things we throw away without a second thought, and we've been set up to live this way.
It's kind of sad, but that's kind of pretty. The artifacts we leave behind will not be obelisks and pyramids but junk food wrappers amd polyester clothes.
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| Amber D400 | Olympus Mju ii |
I had a bag full of various 35mm film for my 3 month NY adventure. The Ambers were a birthday gift and I'm quite fond of how weird they are. I like my halation glowy, and they certainly delivered. The light leaks though, not sure what that's about, they don't appear on any other film stock I've put through the little Mju ii.
Next time in NY, it'll be some medium format quality time with the garbage.
- Cazimi