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Analogue Film Photography

Film Photography

Seven series shot on 35mm film — in ocean pools, night pools and open water, from the Sydney coast to Far North Queensland. Cross-processed Velvia, Portra, Ektar, Lomochrome Purple. Nothing is previewed, nothing is digital, nothing is AI. Each frame gets one chance, and the film has the final say.

Begin in the dark ↓
The Deep

Night Swim · shot on cross-processed Fuji Velvia · Port Douglas

Port Douglas

A figure in red, in black water, at night — the flash the only light source, the Velvia's crossed chemistry turning it feral.

Shot in Far North Queensland — the same waters the Dissolution paintings hang beside in 2026. The photographs and the paintings were made looking at the same country.

Swimmer in a red swimsuit in black water at night, lit by a single flash — 35mm cross-processed Fuji Velvia, Port Douglas

Ocean Pool — Blue · shot on Kodak Portra 400 · NSW coast

Ocean Pool — Blue

Patterned fabric and skin breaking into caustic light at the waterline. The surface photographed from beneath — the threshold this whole practice keeps returning to.

Swimmer at the waterline of an ocean pool seen from below, caustic light across patterned swimsuit — 35mm Kodak Portra 400

Tidal · shot on cross-processed Fuji Velvia 100 · Cronulla

Tidal

The pull between the pool and the open sea — bodies held in the water that moves them. Shot at Cronulla, where the tide decides the picture.

Figure suspended in tidal water at Cronulla — 35mm cross-processed Fuji Velvia 100
Surfacing

Manyana · shot on Fuji C200 · Manyana, NSW

Manyana

Pink water, pale bodies, the light arriving underwater. Manyana is the hinge of this page — still submerged, already luminous.

Pale figures in pink-toned underwater light at Manyana — 35mm Fuji C200
The Surface

Cronulla Pool — Red · shot on Kodak Portra 400 · Cronulla
Cronulla Pool — Green · shot on Kodak Portra 400 · Cronulla

Cronulla Pool — Red & Green

Daylight, chlorine blue, swimmers seen from below in full sun. Paired series — the same pool in two chromatic keys.

Swimmer in a red swimsuit seen from below in bright blue pool water — 35mm Kodak Portra 400, Cronulla
Swimmer in a green swimsuit under sunlit pool water — 35mm Kodak Portra 400, Cronulla

Cronulla Coast · shot on Lomochrome Purple · Cronulla

Cronulla Coast

Above the waterline entirely: the deco buildings, the palms, the shore in a purple key. The page ends here — dry land, transformed.

Art deco building and palms on the Cronulla shoreline in purple-shifted tones — 35mm Lomochrome Purple

Provenance

Every photograph on this page is analogue end to end — shot on 35mm film, hand-processed, no digital capture, no AI at any stage.

Selected series are licensed through Arcangel Images and Bridgeman Studio.
Follow the photography practice at @laini.eckardt.photo.