Like many of her peers, Anya Chigak has embraced compact digital cameras — a token of the past she hopes will keep her tethered to the present.
TORONTO — The photos are grainy, poorly lit or pixelated. The flash has washed out the subjects or illuminated only a portion of the scene. There may be a tiny orange time stamp in the bottom right-hand corner."It captures the vibe a lot more than a clean photo taken by your phone."
Chigak was in Grade 10 when she started using her mom's old digital camera from the mid-aughts, wary of the allure of her phone's notifications and looking for a way to capture memories while staying in the moment."I'm very into antiques and vintage," she said. "I work at an antique store and I collect records and vintage clothes and cassettes, so I've always liked the older look of photos better.
"These are artifacts of an earlier time, and I think that makes them kind of transportive," Purac said. Emma Soper, a 23-year-old linguistics student in Hamilton, can put an exact year to that time: 2011, when she was nine years old and got the digital camera she still uses today.
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