Andreea Andrei is a young photographer currently living in London. She moved there to study filmmaking and photography, and is currently working on having her first exhibition later this summer, with a bigger plan to move it on to Bucharest (her hometown) in autumn.
Andreea Andrei prefers 35mm film and instant photography, because she thinks it still has the future. In her own words:
Film photography will never die, will never go out of style and will never make you forget a person or a feeling. It will stay there forever and it will carry on like it did in the first place. I don’t think that if you go back to 35mm you’re a hipster, like many will say, if they’re gonna see you with a 35 mm camera or a Polaroid camera.
I think we need to step away from the digital, maybe just for 1 second and go to analog. If tomorrow the internet and everything we have on a digital device will disappear what will hold on to? What will have left to see? We’ll have nothing to look at, just an empty black screen. Instead of looking at an old photographic paper with granulation and with that chemical smell.
Andreea prefers black-and-white film and quotidian photographical objects with a touch of grungy feeling.
La fotografía en película nunca morirá, nunca pasará de moda y nunca te hará olvidar a una persona o un sentimiento. Permanecerá allí para siempre y continuará como lo hizo en el primer lugar. No creo que si vuelves al 35mm eres un hipster, como dirían muchos, si te ven con una cámara de 35 mm o con una cámara Polaroid.Creo que tenemos que alejarnos de lo digital, tal vez sólo por 1 segundo y pasar a analógico. Si mañana Internet y todo lo que tenemos en un dispositivo digital desaparece, ¿a qué nos podemos aferrar? ¿Qué nos quedará para ver? No tendremos nada que ver, solo una pantalla negra y vacía. En cambio, podremos mirar un viejo papel fotográfico con granulado y con ese olor químico característico.