The Thousands

When the last rolls of Kodachrome film were developed at Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas on December 30, 2010 it was a genuine news story. The first successful colour reversal film stock onto which countless images from the quotidian to the historic were burned. Requiring the infamously exacting K-14 development process and iconic enough to inspire a pop song in Paul Simon’s eponymous Kodachrome. Amongst the last rolls were the work of Melbourne-based photographers Christian Were, Jeren Tan, Douglas E Pope and David Clarke. So if you need us, we’ll be the ones in the corner dosed up on whiskey, misty-eyed and bemoaning the protracted death of analogue photography and all that is tangible in this world. Then tweeting about it because, you know, we’re not savages. – KD