I started a project to use my father’s camera, a Kodak Retina II, as a kind of post-post-modernist thing to show it how we now see the photos it took 40-70 years ago. Here’s a photo that may have been one of its first rolls, in the summer of 1949 when he worked on mining exploration in the far north of Quebec:

And I already posted here some of the slides we used to see on Friday nights, helping us with the stories of our family. 

First I wanted to capture the object itself, the camera:

from different points of view:

it’s really work in progress…

and the sun was setting in my window, where sits this hypoeste plant growing old… And the Kodak project will go on… Watch for progress in future posts!