Labors of Love

Huong — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:23:58 +0000

I used to be obsessed with typewriters (at one point I had five at once) but I loved them for both the purpose they were made for and also just to use as props in photos. I suppose the reasons I’m drawn to them is because I’ve always appreciated the manual work that you have to put into things that come out of it…same probably goes for why I still love to shoot film. Our friends, TeeJay and Sheena, gave us a really great card on our wedding day that was typed on a typewriter on their way to our ceremony. TeeJay typed it in the car with the typewriter in his lap (the primitive version of a laptop I guess) while Sheena drove them up from North Carolina in the pouring rain. What I wouldn’t give to have been in the back seat of that car witnessing this scene—makes for a beautiful photograph in my head. Anyway. While going through my backup drives, I found a scan of this old emulsion lift that I made for Jeff during our first year of dating. I typed some words on a piece of paper, took a polaroid of that same typewriter, lifted the emulsion from the polaroid and placed it on the paper that I typed on and gifted it to him. Just thought I’d post it for funsies…in addition to a polaroid of him against that same wall that was taken at an earlier date. He looks so young and timid =)

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Labors of Love