“The film is so expensive now. I hate spending so much money on each shot” – photography icon Sally Mann finally switches to a digital camera after decades of using film

I will always remember seeing Sally Mann’s photographs for the first time – it was when I was studying photography at university, about 25 years ago. My first taste was its polarization Immediate family series – monochrome images mainly of his children, shot on an 8 x 10 inch sheet of film.

There was a timeless beauty in these photos, which were painstakingly made with a Deardorf large format 8×10 bellows camera — if you’re interested, she describes her workflow in this CBS Mornings feature.