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BE KIND TO THE NEGATIVE

If you have been going back through your parents’ or grandparents’ bits and pieces, you may have come across red and black packets marked ‘Kodak’ or white packets with blue writing that reads ‘Harringtons’. On opening, you may be lucky enough to find a photo in black and white. There might also be up to a dozen black indecipherable squares on what looks like plastic. What you have come across is a photo negative

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