We spent spring in Toronto with disposable cameras and here's how it went

Film development labs in Toronto are experiencing a resurgence in popularity, thanks to a perfect storm of Millennial nostalgia and a vintage-obsessed Gen Z, part of a broader trend where all that is old is becoming new again.

Aging millennials (cough…cough) have a sentimental connection to the janky plastic disposable cameras that used to be as prevalent in drug stores as charging cords are today — but Gen Z was the first crop of camp kids to grow up without these travel essentials of yesteryear.

So, we asked ourselves, how would nostalgic thirty-somethings and digital-age twenty-somethings approach photography if equipped with the same (lack of) technology?

But, more importantly, how would a season of life in Toronto translate to the timeless medium of 35mm film?

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