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Vintage & Faded Looks

Lifted blacks, drifting colour and the texture of something that sat in a drawer for thirty years.

Vintage is not simply "old film" — new film in 1975 looked clean. What reads as vintage is degradation: blacks that have lifted to grey, dye layers that have drifted out of balance, contrast that has gone soft and uneven. Expired instant stock does this most dramatically, and the peel-apart professional films add the compressed highlights of the instant process. Use these when you want a photograph to feel remembered rather than taken.

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