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An ongoing conversation about film and film cameras between J (who speaks in BLUE) and R (who speaks in Green).

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"Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach."
- Walker Evans

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
-Susan Sontag

“Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.”
-Jim Rohn

“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”
–Robert Adams

“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
-Edward Steichen

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
-Lewis Hine

“Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film."
-Author Unknown

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mail [at] manilacamerastyle.com

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