london
Top left frame: Rolleiflex Automat 3, Zeiss 75 mm f/3.5 Tessar. All other frames: Rolleiflex 6006 Model 2, 80 mm f/2.8 Planar.
Film and developer: Fuji Acros 100, Kodak D76.
I have added these images and others to my Retrospective, a growing collection of photographs shot on black-and-white film using Rolleiflex cameras over the last 15 years.
This Kodachrome photograph, taken in the classic street style, was made by my father in 1965. I love everything about it: the subject matter, the colours, and that he made it. I can imagine the excitement that he must have felt as a young man from Rhodesia visiting England for the first time. The view is of the intersection between Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street at the northeast corner of Piccadilly Circus. Note the advertisement for the Beatles’ “Help” adorning the London Pavilion at the centre of the frame. I find this to be an exquisite detail in the photograph.
