Author name: Graeme Tregay

My background in photography began in 1968 with a Kodak Instamatic used on a school trip. These days I use digital sometimes but my heart is in film. I collect and use many old cameras mainly from the pre-plastic era.

Found Photos: Rex’s War – A Hundred Years of Photography – By Graeme Tregay

By Graeme Tregay / January 10, 2021 / Found Photos / 18 Comments

I retired in 2012 and decided to turn up the wick on my lifelong interest in film photography. I wanted something to do in the indoor winter months and started to scan my archive of slides. My first efforts were simply to safeguard slides that were starting to deteriorate but then I started to process some prints and negatives as well.

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