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Last week I had the pleasure of heading into Manhattan for some of the events of NFTNYC. Because I had this trip planned I decided that I would bust out my Hasselblad 500CM medium format film camera, and some good ol Kodak TriX400. TriX400 has long been my favorite black and white film stock and this day out and about for street photography in the city was no exception. When I talk about film I often try to keep the pros and cons less on the technical constraints on the film and more on what I feel when I shoot it, and process my images.
There’s something special about Kodak TriX400 and there is not really one singular aspect about it that I can put my finger on. For me, whenever I shoot TriX400 the images come out exactly how I want, and exactly how I’m hoping. The images have the look and feel that I’m going for and when it comes to black and white film there’s not much more I can ask for. To me, there’s something special in that TriX mix.
Everytime I get my TriX400 developed and I begin the scanning process at home I’m happy. There’s something about the soul of the photos I create with TriX400 that I can feel. To me it’s a living, breathing, tangible, aspect of why I go back to this stock time and time again. When I’m on a professional shoot, or just at a family bbq, there’s a nostalgic beauty in TriX400 frames that keeps me coming back to it, time and time again. Of course there are a ton of other black and white film that I love to shoot and some that I will on occasion reach to before TriX. But there is some undeniable soul in the images I can create with TriX that for me always make me come back for more.