Introduction
My name is Tim Heubeck and I am a photographer based in Nuremberg, Germany. The focus of my personal work is black and white film photography. Moreover, I exclusively work on self publishing books and zines. My ultimate purpose in photography is to show the world how it looks through my eyes while capturing a timeless feel of the world. It is less about how things we are familiar look like, than moreover with what lays beyond the surface. Experiences, memories and encounters forming our life and consequently who we are. Working on long-term project and focusing on black and white film photography has enabled me to to bring back the physicality of art and revealing the only true way of showing a photograph: through print.
A little over two years ago I have started to work under the name “wasteoffilm“. You may now wonder why "wasteoffilm"? We all know this situation, we didn’t load the film properly in our camera, the flash didn’t fire or we forgot to remove the lens cap. Ending up with no images at all or with photographs we never anticipated. But isn’t this the beauty of film? The unexpected and the room for experimentation. Of course our images are not a waste of film, but important memories we want to preserve in a tangible medium forever. A reminder to the frames we wasted, but also the times we accidentally found an unintended look.
Why film photography saved me
I clearly remember this decisive moment almost exactly four years ago. Back then I had been photographing for around four years and had reached a dead end. I was feeling drained and more than uninspired to take any more pictures. It was a decision of either quitting photography altogether or to undergo a dramatic change and try out something new. At this time I was trapped in a dangerous mind set. I felt this need every single day to post an image to my social media pages. So the reality was to spend hours upon hours editing and searching through my old hard drives to find something to post. It sounds insane looking back at it now.