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- Author: Aleema Omotoni
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Iyanu
There are just these little things that a camera lens can reveal about a
person. Things that they don’t want anyone else to see. And when you’re
the one with the camera, you tend to fade into the background. You get to
be part of the world without having to be a part of the world.
Exactly how I like it.
I’ve always preferred working with film; something about the way it
captures light feels so alive. The first time I ever printed photos, I was ten.
Now, seven years later, the carefully controlled process is practically
embedded into each line on my palms, and I go through the motions with
ease. It’s just as practiced as taking the photos themselves, the comforting
familiarity of creating something new. Revealing hidden truths in a way that
only the process of exposure can achieve.
But unlike ten-year-old Iyanu in the makeshift darkroom that Mum,
Dad, and I put together in our tiny downstairs bathroom, I’m now in the
Wodebury Hall photography lab, surrounded by stainless steel surfaces
laden with expensive tools and devices.
Adjusting my glasses, I peg a photo up onto the drying line behind me
and consider the perspective in the red glow of the gently buzzing safety
light. It’s a picture I’d taken yesterday of the matchmaking event we’d held
in the fields behind Wodebury House, the main school building.
Despite being a frigid Friday evening in late January, we’d had a great
turnout. In the photo, a good chunk of the Year Twelve boarders and some
of my fellow day students stand bundled up among the trees in stylish knit
jumpers and tweed coats, like outfits straight out of a designer winter
collection.
And most of them probably are.
Each round of the matchmaking event had one contestant and twelve
potential matches. The event’s host asked both groups specifically themed
questions on everything from favorite color to relationship dealbreakers.
After each question, the contestant eliminated potential matches based on
the compatibility of their answers until there was only one person left.
I glance over the photo again, scanning the faces of every person on the
stage. The lens reveals their stories, the slight nervousness concealed
behind the participants’ beaming expressions, the anticipation glimmering
in the eyes of the students who came to watch.
A committee of Year Twelve students always puts together the
Valentine’s Day Ball for Sixth Formers—the Year Twelves and Year
Thirteens—that will be happening in two weeks, and I’d been unexpectedly
nominated to the group by our head of year to oversee all photography
matters. And when this matchmaking event had been proposed as a fun way
for us Year Twelve students to find dates for said ball, I’d been the only
person on the committee who didn’t see the point of it.
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