Souped
Mac Orozco
In Souped, Mac Orozco reimagines the experimental film souping technique as a powerful metaphor for community, memory, and shared experience. By soaking film in unconventional solutions, Mac alters photographic images, bringing out unexpected textures, colors, and contrasts that reflect the unpredictable and layered nature of everyday life.
Mac’s practice moves fluidly between the kitchen, the street, and the printed page, gathering domestic materials and discarded ephemera as traces, then using simple acts of care and transforming them into raw, intuitive images. His work embraces imperfection and spontaneity, capturing moments of tenderness and resistance in a way that feels honest and deeply personal.
With Souped, Mac expands this approach into the zine format, creating a recipe book for his alternative processes.
Showcasing a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 film that Mac souped in red Malbec wine and blue Dawn dish soap. This process involves heating the wine, mixing in the soap, and then submerging the shot film for at least 24 hours before standard C-41 development. The longer the film is submerged, the more pronounced and vivid the effects, which can include color shifts, textures, and contrast changes. This improvised brew allows the film to soak up the residue of the everyday, leading to unexpected color shifts and unique blemishes that act as a fragile record of surface trauma.
Souped is an invitation to gather around the residue of process and to appreciate what emerges when nourishment, memory, and print come together. Through this simple yet transformative act, Orozco offers a vivid community document raw, restless, and deeply connected.
Zine available in a signed edition of TBD.
Available for online order August 22nd
Editioned and initialed by the artist.
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