Botany (2020- present)

Lomography’s Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 film debuted in early 2013. I bought my first roll a year later, during my first year at university, and fell in love instantly. I've shot with it almost every year since.

It reminds me of discontinued infrared films like Kodak Aerochrome, famously used by Richard Mosse in The Enclave, his series on the conflict in Congo. I love its magic—especially how it makes portraits feel surreal. Its effect on trees, plants, and flowers never ceases to amaze me, transforming colors in unexpected ways: blue shifts to green, green to purple, yellow to pink. But red stays red.

I’m a bit obsessed with it—and I really hope it never gets discontinued.