I arrived in Vincennes, Indiana, in the fall of 2018 to attend Vincennes University to pursue a degree in photography. I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kid excited and nervous to be at college and be away from my family, though I wasn’t too far. My first experience with film photography was my first year there; I had no idea how this medium and class would impact my life. So I wasn’t too interested in it at the beginning. It was tricky, and I could never remember how aperture and iso worked, but I started to fall in love with it, and my passion for photography grew. I compiled an extensive collection of black and white and color negative films throughout my time at VU. The black and white film was Ilford Delta 100, the leftover rolls former classmates didn’t use or want anymore, while the colored film, Kodak Gold, came from a local Walgreens. I began photographing the campus and the things I saw before I started to branch out into the town of Vincennes and somewhat started to fall in love with the small city and its mundane places. I would photograph buildings, the campus, college life, and a few photos of people on occasion using various film cameras that created a stockpile of physical copies of my film photos that I had developed at Walgreens. Some were great, some were poor, and a few were just awful, but I slowly created this project of 82 photos documenting my somewhat mundane college life and the mundane around me. So I present The Mundane of Vincennes, a project 2 years in the making.

Portraits of Campus

Vincennes is somewhere I hold close to my heart, all the moments and memories I created during this time. Thank you for viewing a collection that I hold dear to me.

-Saint Cloud