05/28/2026
In 1990, my pappaw gave my dad a 35mm Canon EOS as a wedding present. It was the camera I learned to shoot with when I was 15.
I fell in love with photography after my very first roll — developing film manually and spending hours in the darkroom watching my frames come to life on silver gelatin.
This camera has been with me for the past 18 years.
Last month my film came back blank for the first time. (Thought) I got it repaired, brought it to NYC, shot a test roll — it came back almost entirely blank, except for two frames. This portrait is one of them.
Felt like a beautiful departing gift 🥀
The contact sheet is from my first roll in 2008. The staircase portrait is from 2012, in college — scouting south miami for locations that felt cinematic (and sometimes required light trespassing to access …)
End of an era. TYSM OG EOS for your dedicated service — you were the perfect partner in crime for almost two decades 🫀🪽
