Recently I found a box with old negatives in my shed. When I moved to Oslo in 2010, we had a break in and the thieves stole all my old negatives. I had several suitcases filled with folders with old negatives in them. It was a big loss for me since I hadn’t bothered to digitise all of them.

I had several portrait session from back when I used to email random artits in Trondheim, to ask them if I could come and take their pictures. I had lots of 120- and 135-negatives, mostly in Tri-X because that was my go to back then.

Anyways. This contact sheet is shot with my phone. It was from when I was a photographer on a student film back in 2004-2006 (I think), and they were shot with my Canon EOS 30, with a 24-70 2.8L The film was Kodak T-Max 400, which was untypical of me, but the director wanted less grain. Tri-X, with the right developer, is extremely grainy! I developed and dried the film at home in my small apartment, and I used the special T-Max developer so I could keep the grain as small as possible.

I don’t remember much of the people in the images, nor do I remember exactly what the film was about. I got the “gig” because I was doing media studies, and I knew several people that wanted to be directors. This film was directed by a woman (that I don’t remember the name of because we haven’t kept in contact). The plot was about a couple going to an unnamed island, and then weird stuff happened. We’re talking about random weird people showing up in the film, several of the charactes went throug sex changes. It all became a very meta when at one point I, the hired photographer, also featured in a party scene with the sound and camera people. Think Dogme 95, but on speed! I also learned that watching actors acting out a sex scene for the film was extremely cringe.

The director rented a house on an island outside Trondheim, and we were alone there for a weekend. During the daytime we worked and shot the film as long as the short lived norwegian daylight during february/march allowed us to. At night we drank (alot of) beers and had a good time since we were all in our early 20s.

Some of my pictures got used in the marketing and the poster for the film. I remember shooting two more rolls, but I can’t find them.