The Last Roll of Kodachrome

❝ In 1984, photojournalist Steve McCurry was in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan. He followed the sound of voices to a tent where he found a group of girls. “I noticed this one little girl off to the side that had his incredible set of eyes that seemed almost haunted — or very piercing,” he tells NPR’s Audie Cornish.

McCurry snapped a picture that ended up on the cover of National Geographic’s…

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All photographs are momento mori but Jeff Jacobson's The Last Roll is  particularly poignant and luminescent.

Stashing away all the remaining Kodakchrome stock in his freezer Jacobson held his horde like a squirrel for winter. An inconvenient cancer diagnosis made him re-evaluate his perspective and that's how The Last Roll came in to being. While recovering from chemotherapy, Jacobson took photos around his house in the Catskills, too weak to undertake any grand photographic adventures. The result is an odd but strangely charming series of images. Jacobson cites Kertesz as an influence and it shows.

Pages filled with photographic vapours, transmissions, and somnolent ambiguity. Book for sale here: http://daylightbooks.org/store/jeff-jacobson-last-roll

And you should read this interview: http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Jeff-Jacobson-on-Bea-7850.shtml