Viva Brighton Issue #69 November 2018

TALKING SHOP
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Photos by Rebecca Cunningham
personal use. If there’s an event on in Brighton
and I want a quick image so that I can produce
it on a print for the weekend, I’ll take it on my
digital camera – within two days I can have a
product ready. But if I go on holiday with the
family, or when I’m walking around town, I use
film. I don’t think one medium is better than the
other; they each have their own uses.
I would say the main things we sell are the
pictures of Brighton and the souvenirs – the
postcards and canvases and fridge magnets – all
of which we make here in the shop. We do
digital printing, inkjet printing and large-format
printing, so for all the products that we sell, we
offer a service where you can have your own
photo put onto them. We don’t process film
on-site, but we work with a local lab called
Colourstream so we can offer this service. We
sell second-hand film cameras – anything from
£20 point-and-shoot cameras to an SLR, if you
want to take it a bit more seriously – and we sell
lots of film, especially small-batch film.
Sometimes I wonder what the next trend in
photography will be. Surely for film to have
come back into fashion, we must have gone
full circle. But I guess the progression of film is
about the sharing aspect of it; now, when people
shoot on film, they have the ability to get the
images in a digital format, not just in print. So I
guess we’ll see…
As told to Rebecca Cunningham by Serge Rolland
1 Sydney Street, zoingimage.com
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