I went on a road trip to Kodak Headquarters and along the way captured each step of the journey. As a photographer, the road trip is a right of passage and then it only made sense to travel to a destination relevant to the history of photography. Even before setting out I knew this would be my version of a pilgrimage. I visited Eastman house and got to stand outside the Mansion which was under renovations. I saw the Kodak Centre which is closed on weekends. I drove through what is left of the Kodak factory now renamed Eastman Business Park. I stayed overnight in a giant Victorian house at the end of a cul de sac and did not see a single neighbour. The following morning I got breakfast at a diner that had not changed since the early seventies and then drove home.

Golden age thinking tends to lend itself to a time before digital photography. Film is most often romanticized and in the years since commercial digital photography, there has been article after article claiming the death of the medium. Nothing could be farther from the truth. True, the medium has undergone a tremendous evolution in the past 45 years, almost abandoning its materiality, stripping its technical process and giving birth to a generation accustomed to an endless stream of imagery; but what is often overlooked is what it has gained. In the post-postmodern era photographers must be totally driven by content to make anything of value. After going to Koadk I feel I am on the other side of things. I appreciate and recognize the history but as a primarily digital photographer, I am excited for the future of the medium.