Hi, I’m mizan. I started out laundry room processing 35mm black and white film in the summer of 7th grade. In 9th grade I began shooting medium format with a yashica-mat and processing that. I then began shooting and reversal processing 8mm movies. In the winter of 10th grade I bought a monorail 4×5 camera with a tessar and thus began large format. In late may I started processing e6 slide film in the kitchen with my sister. Now in my junior year, I am building a shed darkroom and will finally have the space to experiment more with different methods. I feel like my story basically consists of me thinking that the current thing I’m doing will sate me. When I started medium format I thought “this is where I stop, this is enough” but then I had to move onto large format. The same thing happened with large format and color or 8mm movies. I have made dry tintypes and am trying van dyke brown and am shooting 16mm now. It’s never really been about what’s older or “cooler” it’s about what takes the most amount of work. I have always been looking for something to put more of my heart and soul into, or moreso takes more if my heart and soul, the steps I take in photography often are to things that are worth much more to me. I became infatuated with dagguerotypes when I saw the short video with Dan Carillo, how he describes them as little jewels made so much sense to me. When I saw that the safest methods still use rather corrosive chemicals, I started plans for a fuming box and fume hood to build into the new darkroom. Basically that is my story caught up to present day. I’m really looking for people who has been in the sane place as me and to get as much information from the very knowledgeable people here.