Shooting on film has been my reset switch. See, there is nothing more satisfying than not knowing what you photographed until you see it on film. It is the risk and the lack of certainty that make it so satisfying. In the last month, I’ve been pushing AI really hard, to the point where I almost hit the 10x limit of ChatGPT, which, hands down, remains the best overall model so far. From an impossible task to replace Google Photos, to work-related next-gen QA agentic state-of-the-art flows, to hitting my new favourite toy: Hermes AI.
Still, I reset with film.
I shot my graduates’ class yearbook photo sessions because the alternatives were terrible. And my gift to them is this: a photo, taken on decades-old cameras, on a piece of gelatine, hand-developed using chemicals and then scanned for them to enjoy years later. Because film is simply not dead. It was always the OG. Digital was only a tool, just like AI is.
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