NYC/PBI — ElEONORA GOMEZ BAS

In the summer of 2001, I attended my second Paper and Book Intensive in Utah, making a stop in New York City on the way. As always, I brought with me my Canon A1 camera to document the trip, and proceeded to develop and enlarge the photos in my darkroom/bathroom upon return. What I like about the photo books I put together during those years is that, unlike the overabundance of digital images I produce today, I typically ended up with only a handful of prints. 35mm photography is labor intensive and definitely more costly. Because of that, it wasn't about documenting it ALL. Looking back, the images I did capture seem almost random, whimsical, as if I was curating the work as I went along. For this reason, and probably some others, they seem all the more significant today.

All photographs taken using Canon A1 and Canon Rebel SLR cameras, with Kodak T-MAX 400 film.