The Death of Film

Light-Works in Burlington, my favorite local lab, officially stopped processing film last week. Instead of pouting about it, Marty Feldman, the lab owner, sent out an invitation to Vermont photographers to eulogize the lost medium. It was fun to hang out with my photo pals and meet some new ones. Certainly the most enjoyable "funeral" I’ve been to.

WCAX, Channel 3’s own Bianca Slota reported on the event. To watch it CLICK HERE!

And to check out the SEVEN DAYS online article (with a group photo taken by Matthew Thorsen) CLICK HERE!

We wrote epithets on strips of film...
...and placed them in this little coffin. The collection will be used in a display in the annual South End Art Hop.
The darker sides of Gordon Miller and John Williams
this really has nothing to do with anything, but I saw this cutie Pez collection while wandering around the lab.
Channel 3 hard at work...

The next few photos were taken by my kind of cockeyed pal John Williams.
Me and Barrie Fisher
Glenn Moody and Michael Riddell
The eulogy that Marty gave was anything but sad...
we are all about recycling in Vermont and film bags make great beer coolers...
Marty, 2nd from left, and some of his original Light-Works crew. Check out the poster of them just behind...nice hair everyone!
Glenn Russell and Marty. (Glenn is the most senior photojournalist at the Free Press and one of the biggest wiseguys ever.)
The sky that evening was just proof that there is life after death...