This is my little project that I subconsciously started to create in 2018. At a moment of major changes in my life, Chaika fell into my hands. A half-frame analogue camera. From the start, I fell in love with the way she sees the world. I photographed my life. No negatives of mine are as private as those of the Chaika.

I created the series unconsciously, always taking this camera in my bag and always having the same negative in it. Sometimes it took me six months to complete all 72 frames.

Then there were the notorious scanning problems.

But it was always worth it. Many of these images are in my private photo albums. They are with me. These photos and these memories. Today I am bringing them to light. Because this is an october. The month of my birthday and the ubiquitous ink.

This is only the first part. There are a lot of photos in the Little Thoughts Gallery.

Chaika 3 + Fomapan 200 + Rodinal 1:100 + home print + ink