A growing band of hobbyists are buying rolls of unexposed film, getting them developed and looking at strangers´ lives from many years ago. Amelia Tait tries her luckThe woman in the photographs had an eventful year. Which year, exactly, is unclear - judging by the number plate on her car and her three-quarter-length cargo shorts, it was sometime between May 1995 and the early 2000s. It´s undoubtable, however, that she had a good time: she went to see the Eagles perform live in concert, travelled abroad and splashed around in a sunlit swimming pool, visited an exotic bird sanctuary, witnessed a snow storm and then, to round it all off, posed semi-nude in her kitchen, exhibiting her nearly bare bum.She looks to be in her late 20s or early 30s, and registered her car (or bought a car registered in) Leicester. I don´t know her name because she is a complete stranger, although I have now seen 36 snapshots of her life shot on a roll of Kodak Gold 35mm film. I bought the mysterious film on eBay, developed it myself and relished the results. Continue reading...
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