Film is Not Dead

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Danielle Olson, "Untitled," 2018

photograph, 5" x 7"

Photographer Danielle Olson shares black and white photographs developed during her darkroom residency in the City of Red Deer's darkroom studio.

Film is not Dead has been a common term used in the analog photography community recently. With the surge of technology and all things digital, photographers want to show film is still relevant and just as versatile as digital photography. This concept is important to Olson who explores different types of developing such as double exposures, layering of negatives, developer painting, and creating rayographs. The messy and tedious process of all these techniques makes for photos that are unique and full of imperfections.

Olson has been fascinated with death since childhood. To her, what lies under the flesh is just as interesting as the flesh itself. Growing up on a farm always had her surrounded by the circle of life and she grew comfortable with and appreciated the process and darkness of decay just as much as the growth and light of life. She has combined that interest with my passion for the darkroom to create this photo series in an attempt to show that there is beauty in death and decay just as there is beauty in analog photography and it is, in fact, not dying.