Written by
Juno Ferreira
Photographer, Lisbon
The frame you cannot check
Every roll of medium-format film gives me ten frames. Ten decisions, ten moments where I have to commit before I know what I have. Digital removed that pressure, and with it, for me, most of the attention.
I am not nostalgic about grain or colour. I am nostalgic about the way a limited budget of frames forces you to look longer before you press anything.
What it costs
A single roll, developed and scanned, costs about the same as a good lunch. On a three-day editorial that adds up, and it is a line I put on every estimate. Clients rarely push back once they have seen the contact sheets.