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My favorite grainy photo. This is from a Kodak disposable camera.

I listened to Ashley Blaine's Trials to Triumphs podcast earlier this week, and Lena Waithe was her guest. During the conversation, Lena talked about her upbringing and how her grandmother shaped some of her early interests in film because she had the kind of grandmother who took her to d…