i’ve given this part a bit more thoughts on how should i arrange it, since the colored ones have the largest share of my archive.
by city? by color? by subject? by film stock, or even iso?
though some easier and some less convenient,
they don’t really capture how i see the photos myself — by time.
welcome, to my rather short years of youth and freedom.
in college
nov 2021 — nov 2023
november 2021, i picked up an olympus mju ii point-and-shoot film camera, and kicked off my film journey.
it was during the fall semester in my senior year. i just returned to the u.s., after a full year of remote classes from china, due to covid-19.
this is the entrance of a parking lot near my dorm building, which i walked past very often.
kentmere 400 was my first black and white film.
of the 36 frames in the roll, about 12 of them were visible.
with point-and-shoot, i didn’t really worry about standing on the train rail.
bu-central is the station conveniently located right out of my dorm.
any destination started here.
somehow i visited mistral, a high-end french restaurant in boston, with my roommate.
i hadn’t mastered the shutter speed and lighting condition by then, resulting in this long-exposed effect.
there is something magical about the warmth of sunlight during boston’s winter. i think this one captures that warmth.
seaport and ica-boston became some of my favorite places to stay, and stare at the ocean.
winter had come, days got shorter everyday.
st mary street in brookline became part of my core memory at boston.
tatte, a brunch-cafe chain now all over boston and dc, opened its first store at st mary.
i’ve probably visited this exact store for over 50 times, a 10-minute walk from my dorm.
i started exploring cambridge and nearby places, anywhere that mbta could take me.
as someone from shenzhen, a city that never snows, i fell madly in love with boston’s winter.
i call these two — evidence of snowman’s visit — as if they came and chatted sitting on these chairs.
to be continued…