Last year when Kodak announced that they would be ceasing production of their kodachrome film it was seen as the end of an era. However, for one photographer in particular who had dedicated most of his career to the brand it was a huge blow. The Magnum photographer Steve McCurry was so affected by the end of the films production that he made a personal request to Kodak for the last film roll ever produced.
The National Geographic Photographer decided that with the film he would shoot to some important locations from his career. He settled on India and New York, in India he decided to shoot portraits of Rabari tribesmen, a tribe whose way of life is dying out just like the Kodachrome film.
Unlike Polaroid, which closed down the manufacture of its last instant film plant in 2008, only for production lines to re-open a year later under the ownership of The Impossible Project, Kodachrome will not make a comeback, because there's no longer anywhere to process it. The last lab to offer processing, Dwayne's Photo in Kansas, stopped the service on 30 December.
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