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The Last Roll
Copyright Jeff Jacobson 2024
Updated Sep 2023
Topics Cancer, Photography

THE LAST ROLL

"A few days before Christmas, 2004, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. Some present. After each chemotherapy session I retreated to our home in the Catskills to recuperate. I began photographing around the house, as I was too sick to go anywhere else. As my strength returned, my photographic universe slowly expanded. Shortly thereafter, Kodak discontinued production of Kodachrome. I loved Kodachrome. It helped shape my photographic vision. I filled my refrigerator and wine cooler with the stuff and kept shooting. I have outlived my film. A few days before Christmas, 2010, I exposed my last roll." This book is my attempt to answer the question "what do you do when you are presented with your own physical and creative mortality?

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