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With the Fabrice on Film blog, I intend to share my process and my journey as a film photographer and filmmaker. 

Experiences with equipment, with different types of film brands, labs, share personal insights and processes will be logged here as much as I can afford to, time-wise.

Thank you for reading, and keep shooting the right stuff.


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