I have recently become the owner/curator of a large collection of family Kodachrome slides, taken between the 1950's and 2000's. I wanted to be able to use these in my work in some way as a way of recycling images that have for years been considered "waste" by my family. There are so many memories hidden in these old photographs that I wanted to showcase in some way again. There are hundreds of photographs in this collection that have been taken all around the world, but the majority of them were snapped up in the vicinity of the Medway Area, where my father's family spent a great deal of time over the years. I photographed a few examples to show the type of content that is included within the collection, using a fairly straightforward setup at home involving my digital camera, studio flashes & reflectors. These photographs aren't scans of the slides, but rather photographs of them with clever use of backlighting to show their content. I am very interested with this idea of backlighting and would like to implement this into my shoot somehow.
My simplistic makeshift setup for photographing these slides, not that great in terms of quality, but it gets the job done. The RAW digital files are then cropped in photoshop.
