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Eagerly staring toward the Coliseum. (Jake Berg / Daily Trojan)
Photos by JAKE BERG, BRYCE DECHERT, TAI SANDHU LYN & MALLORY SNYDER
Words by HENRY KOFMAN

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

Eagerly staring toward the Coliseum. (Jake Berg / Daily Trojan)
Cloudy day. (Bryce Dechert / Daily Trojan)
Doheny palms. (Mallory Snyder / Daily Trojan)
Arches. (Mallory Snyder / Daily Trojan)
Little oasis (Tai Lyn Sandhu / Daily Trojan)
School of Cinematic Arts. (Tai Lyn Sandhu / Daily Trojan)
Post game. (Bryce Dechert / Daily Trojan)
Fighting on. (Bryce Dechert / Daily Trojan)
Look up. (Bryce Dechert / Daily Trojan)
Lines, lines and more lines. (Jake Berg / Daily Trojan)
Campus greenery. (Mallory Snyder / Daily Trojan)
Between the trees. (Mallory Snyder / Daily Trojan)
Stages. (Tai Lyn Sandhu / Daily Trojan)
Where it all began. (Jake Berg / Daily Trojan)
Rock gardens. (Tai Lyn Sandhu / Daily Trojan)
Last days of summer. (Mallory Snyder / Daily Trojan)
Serenity. (Mallory Snyder / Daily Trojan)
Afternoon walkers through a window. (Tai Lyn Sandhu / Daily Trojan)
Through the grass. (Bryce Dechert / Daily Trojan)
An impressive backyard. (Jake Berg / Daily Trojan)
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