Memory City: The Fading Days of Film

 For this project, Alex Webb took photographs of Rochester, New York, with his last rolls of Kodachrome, a formerly 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, memory, time and the city itself; they have a weathered quality akin to a fading memory. Alex also took some shots in digital colour, which punctuate the black-and-white work with images in his signature style. Rebecca, who still uses film for all her work, responded to the medium's uncertain future by creating a melancholy refrain of colour still-lifes and portraits of Rochester women past and present

Review: 'Really good. Alex Webb has an expert eye for framing a fleeting moment ... a masterclass in observation and context ... the book is charming, one of a kind ... If we are living in the last days of film, then 'Memory City' is a fitting epitaph' - Amateur Photographer

'A love song to film and to Kodak ... a quietly moving, reflective work' - Aesthetica

'Both melancholy and charming' - New Statesman