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Why I still load film in the dark

Notes from a year of changing rolls in a bag, by feel, in places that were never meant to be darkrooms.

Most of what I know about photography I learned by getting it wrong in the dark. This is a short, honest note on one of those lessons.

If you shoot film, you already know the pull of slowing down. The rest is chemistry and patience.

Let’s make something worth developing.

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