For three years, I developed all my own film. Every roll. Every chemical bath. Every carefully timed rinse.
It felt essential to my process — like I wasn’t really doing the work if I wasn’t doing all of it.
Then I handed a few rolls to Bellows Film Lab here in Atlanta, and something shifted.
This is the first of three short videos about what happened when I finally let someone else handle part of my creative process. Lessons about control, mistakes, and memory that came from a simple decision to stop doing everything myself.
Runtime: 5 minutes
What’s the one thing you’re holding onto in your creative process that’s actually holding you back?
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series exploring lessons from film photography.
