Hey. My name is Ilan Shiran. An amateur photographer who never studied photography in a formal setting. Throughout my life I was self-taught. I discovered photography as a child when I discovered international magazines such as National Geographic Time and Playboy. The magazines printed on fine chrome paper smelled of fragrances that I did not know. The wonderful color photographs had me staring and intrigued by each picture. Yes, also from advertisements. Through them I was exposed to distant worlds that I did not know existed. I was especially fascinated by the American culture as revealed to me through those photographs. Crowded cities, taxis, trains and planes and styles of clothing I did not know. Although about fifty years have passed since then, I have a desire to recreate those photographed moments with the help of the film imaging recipes of the Fujifilm company.