Once upon a time there was a photography shop in Zurich that never failed to catch my attention. I used to ride past it on the way to work quite regularly, and the windows were full of fascinating stuff – enlargers, developing stuff, paper cameras… you name it they would have it. But the shop never actually appeared to be open.
Imagine then my excitement last year when I read that the shop was closing and there was to be a closing down sale “flea market”. For various reasons I didn’t actually attend, but I did read a couple of interesting articles in the newspaper about the history of the business and decided to capture this historic event on film.
Film: Ilford HP5. Camera: Yashica T5. – April 2016
That was almost a year ago. Since then the shop has reopened http://www.ars-imago.com/ and sells all sorts of film related stuff. I plan to visit the shop within the next few months or so, but in the meantime I did back their new product…. more about that soon.