Memphis, Tennessee c. 1970 by William Egglston

Kodachrome is dead.

If you didn’t know, colour photography wasn’t really considered art before Egglston. He was honoured with the MoMA’s first ever solo exhibit of colour photography, and his name and his photographs are virtually synonymous with Kodak film. We take tints and hues for granted now, but when you look at his images you see that the polychrome splashes play an integral role to the composition.

I’ve always shot Fuji film -I even prefer ACROS for black & white - but I did like kodachrome, and it’s sad to know that it’s gone, like seeing a record store close, it doesn’t have a practical, day to day affect as much as it’s a romantic death and a sign of the times. A few weeks ago my developer at ICON gave me a brick of Kodachrome 64T 120 so I’ve got several rolls of memories to be created and captured, now more than ever certain to be relics of a special place and time [in my life].