1984

I was 13/14 years old in 1984, my interest in photography hadn’t surfaced and wouldn’t do for another couple of years, but it was the year the Minolta Hi-Matic GF was released. Two years later it was still being produced and had probably sold in its hundreds of thousands, but it wouldn’t have caught my eye, I was in that first stage of photography when I honestly believed that the more expensive the camera, the better your photos would be, so I was probably fantasising about owning a fully tricked-up Nikon F3 or something.

A few weeks ago my good friend, Ciara, bought me a charity shop £4 Hi-Matic GF as part of a bag of birthday goodies, using it has single-handedly rekindled my love of film photography, which I have to say had stagnated over the last few months, it’s now my favourite camera, it goes everywhere with me, literally.

Here’s a few of my favourite images off the first roll of film I shot (£1 a roll Agfa Vista 200)