Vasco Vozone

I’m a self taught lover of film photography who fell into the medium during my university days when I decided to get a shitty Lomography plastic Diana and through a lot of trial and error figured out the basics over a few years. 

When venturing out of Portugal and home town of Cascais, the film camera was left behind but in 2017 I inherited a couple of SLRs and got back into the whole thing which kickstarted a camera shopping addiction. To save money, I learned how to develop black and white film in the tiny bathroom of the Singapore apartment I was living in. 

Initially for convenience, and later as an aesthetic preference I ended up gravitating towards the colorless medium because of its flexibility and subjectivity. Black and white brings me back to devouring the photos in history books as a child, letting my imagination fill in the colors of those scenes from the past. I try to achieve the timelessness that the monochrome grain brings to images and scenes where more questions are raised than answered.

Moving back to Portugal and into Ericeira, I decided to set up my own darkroom and try my hand at analog prints where the magic of an image appearing of its own volition on a white page under a red light never loses its stunning effect. Being involved in the whole process from firing a shot to hanging up a print drives my motivation and passion, where I can celebrate my successes and own up to my many fuck ups along the way.

The subjects of my photos are varied: landscapes,nature, people, architecture and everyday scenes. I’ve had multiple exhibitions in Portugal and keep working to create content for more.