On Oct. 6, 1880, USC first opened to its 53 students and 10 teachers. Eight years later, the Kodak #1 camera became available to the public. From the start, film photography has been a crucial way to capture the history and beauty of our ever-changing campus. Today, USC continues to expand, with new buildings appearing alongside the old. Physical media is increasingly rare in the 21st century, yet it holds the power to capture reality in a unique hands-on form. For a special Daily Trojan Magazine photo essay, staff photographers, Jake Berg, Bryce Dechert, Tai Lyn Sandhu and Mallory Snyder, took it old-school with physical media, a roll of film, to capture the sprawling life of a 144-year-old campus in “USC on Film.”
Henry Kofman
Photo Editor
