When film goes Fubar

I have been flicking through some very old archives while backfilling some gaps in this site which got lost when transferring the structure at some point and came across these.

These, from my notes, were taken using Kodak Gold 100 in a QB35 – this seems to be a promo camera (the classic one setting point and click) as an advertising freebie with Lyons Quick Brew.

The film is plainly fucked. I think a combination that the camera probably wanted ISO400, and the film is very old has led to artifacts, leask, colour shifts and a near impossibility to scan.

I often ponder the value of these kind of images. Like anything, photographic failures are or course of value in learning – but what about when theimages are doomed from the start.

For me the value however is in artistic inspiration. It’s like ready made impressionaism to work from, breaking the image down into constituent shapes and colours, like on a canvas.