Despite the advances in digital photography, traditional film is not dead. In fact, it's experiencing a resurgence, according to two of SVA's BFA Photography and Video students. "A lot of people are shooting film now," says third-year student Abbey Gilbert. "My teacher told me a lot of students are working with film because they're trying to have a sense of nostalgia they never had as digital natives."

Abbey got her first analog camera—a Rolleiflex 120mm—as a gift when she was 14. "It was my grandfather's," she says. "It got passed down to my dad and then he gave it to me." Since then, Gilbert has gotten a Leica 35mm and a medium-format Mamiya 7. Third-year student Carlos Becerra never touched an analog camera until he got to SVA. "Now I have many—Fuji GX680, Bronica ETR-Si, Mamiya d220," he says. "It's become a bit of an obsession."

With film, of course, photographers are limited by the number of exposures they have per roll. But these SVA students see positivity in this limitation. "It definitely taught me a lot of patience," Gilbert says. "When you have 36 shots, you have to make those count. It costs money. It makes you really think about the composition and the moment."

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