Bad Weather, Surreal Terrain & 35mm Film: A Proper New Zealand Road Trip

Photographer Tom Loach explores New Zealand's enchanting South Island with Olympus cameras and a bag of Kodak film in hand

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Bad Weather, Surreal Terrain & 35mm Film: A Proper New Zealand Road Trip

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Photographer

Thomas Loach

Camera

Olympus XA 2 and OM1

Film

Kodak Portra 400

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