Years ago I bought a photographic film scanner and went bananas scanning every single piece of film I shot and processed. I'm in the actions of rescanning everything after dusting off this wonderful piece of machinery which has been sitting idle for 2 years. This included all the black and white film I shot during my single year of studying photography. Above is the digital contact sheet from a trip my class did into Durbans Gray Street. We were given filthy looks, we were stopped by police asking if we were aware of how dangerous it was to roam the streets camera in hand, it was even said to us that we were silly white people and to go home. I made some of my favorite photographs that day.
In that time of study I lucked into photographing music concerts local but mostly international. When photographing a music concert your time in the 'pit' is limited to the first three songs, four if the artist is generous. On one such occasion a local and by local I mean South African band who had some fame at their time thought they would pull a preMadonna and shorten that to one song. Where did that get them? No where. Never the less what I would do is have my digital and film body, digital for color and film for a single roll of black and white negative. I would shoot two songs in color as this was my main priority and then concentrate on my personal roll of BW. The very next day I would make a bee line to the college dark room and develop my roll of gold. Sometimes I'd done it just right others not so.
Below is the contact sheet from an Avril Lavigne concert back in 2005. I still have many more from many other concerts to scan. Sad news is I still have about 10 rolls yet to be developed because it is too costly to develop the film I shot it on.
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