Late last year, I ran a small project with a nonprofit in San Francisco. We gave out instant film cameras (color and black and white) to 5 people who were either unhoused or who lived nearby in one of the 'SROs'. We did a tiny, tiny exhibition.
I'm still working to figure out how to make this a more regular thing, and how to show their work, because they have such amazing stories to tell.
Roll eps16 (cont.): Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa (June 1966)
In two years of living at Parsons, this was the first time I had ever seen a man and a woman together on campus. He is of course a senior, and the girl is just visiting for graduation.
This wasn't because there were no women students, you understand. But unless you were an upperclassman and had a car, there was no way you'd ever get to interact with them.
Dev and scan for 7 rolls of film is US$150 where I live.
With my Bellini chemicals, and scanning setup at Photolaundry where I get a Fuji frontier scanner by the hour, it costs $4-5 per roll (excluding my time, but I actually do this to destress)