Fiona Estelle Blandford


Australia,  2016 — present        
                                         

1983 from the freezer

This project will finish when the film in my freezer runs out; there are 200+ rolls left.

A colleague gifted me a stockpile of film in his freezer since 1983.

My only plan for the film was to shoot and observe how each roll turned out. After being frozen for three decades, the outcome varies; some mouldy, and some with unusual colour casts and shifts, but mostly, to my surprise, they survived.

The stockpile consists of AGFAColor 100s, IlfordXP1 400, Kodak XPan black and white, and Kodak Vericolor 2.

I started out using the method to account for old film, a stop per decade, then just started shooting as is, which also worked fine. 

The AGFA and Ilford have been my favourites to shoot; I've enjoyed the blue tones of AGFA, and I love Ilford black and white film, from any decade!