Welcome to my photography page - Thanks for taking a look around. My name is Andres Garcia, I'm a photographer based in the Chicagoland area, shooting all across the Great Lakes region. While I do shoot digital work from time to time, my primary focus is in film photography.
I enjoy shooting live events and street photography, as I like to capture candid moments that tell a story. Secondarily, I enjoy shooting portraits, as shooting them on film gives them a more artistic, painting-like quality.
Capturing images on film, though more difficult and less forgiving, provides a feel that cannot be matched with digital sensors. Shooting on film allows an image, a memory, to be stored physically -- there is no digital file to be lost on a hard drive, or accidentally deleted.
I either develop my own photos, or only use the best labs like Indie Film Lab or Reformed Film Lab for film processing and scanning. I primarily shoot on a Canon F-1, Leica M2, or Hasselblad 500C using predominately Kodak and Ilford films, but others are in rotation from time to time.