The FOUND Project
I got my first camera at age 9. It was a Kodak 126 camera, and foreshadowingly, I mostly took pictures of nice cars with it. That film was never developed, and the camera never got another roll of film. This project "Found," was born from my innate desire to collect and my years of selling people cameras. I started finding expensive cameras discarded, sometimes lucky enough to end up in op-shops, but often at dumpshops or, worse, crushed in landfills. These were film cameras, unwanted in the digital age. So, I bought a lot of them—sometimes for a dollar or two, sometimes for nothing. One in every 10 or 20 cameras would still have film in it, usually unfinished. This got me thinking about the memories, moments, and events captured on these films, lost and discarded, never to be realized. It was kind of sad, right? Luckily, due to my 'collecting' nature, I kept all of those films. Many of the cameras have been rehomed, but the film stayed with me. About 10 years a...