Back in December last year, I was talking to Catherine from Everyday Mama about 35mm film, and our love for shooting this way amongst our digital work. Over the last few years, we have had conversations about creativity, art, family, and how important it is for us to record, and share our everyday moments, maybe even more so now at this time in our lives. We talked about a project we could do together, so last Christmas Day, we both shot a roll of film each, me in West Yorkshire, Catherine in Auckland. You can see our shots here.
At the beginning of March, we were chatting on Insta, and Catherine suggested we do a 1 roll, 1 day project every month. We put the date in our diaries and then immediately realised we’d both be travelling that day. Instead of choosing another, we stuck to that day. I’m so pleased we did, as only a week later we both found ourselves in lockdown on opposite sides of the world.
I sent Catherine my photos from March the other day, and she put our photos side by side in diptychs. I love how she’s chosen them to fit together.
I had to share these words that Catherine put on her Insta post about our project; ‘And herein lies the lesson from this month for me, embrace the mundane, don’t be so quick to dismiss the very very ordinary moments, because woven together, they make up the very fabric of our lives’.
