Memory City: The Fading Days of Film

An elegiac look at Rochester, New York, home to Eastman Kodak for 125 years until its bankruptcy in 2012

Rochester, New York was home to Eastman Kodak for 125 years until its bankruptcy in 2012. Alex Webb took photographs of the city with his last rolls of Kodachrome, a no-longer-available, vibrant colour film that can now only be processed as black-and-white …

The resulting photographs, taken during what may be the last days of film as we know it, are a meditation on film, memo..