The people behind it
Built on film,
run on passion.
It started with film photography at festivals. There's something about loading a roll, winding it on, and waiting to see what came back from the lab that no digital camera has ever replicated. Not better exposure, not more megapixels - just the feeling of holding the moment in your hands.
We started shooting events together - weddings, parties, the occasional chaotic student night - and we kept noticing the same thing. The photos people cared about most weren't the ones on their phones. They were the blurry film shots pinned to a noticeboard, the disposable camera prints from a hen do, the faded Polaroid stuck to a fridge years later.
"Physical photos do something to a room that digital ones simply can't."
So we built something. Nick machined the wooden cabinet by hand - solid ash with brushed aluminium corners - and we packed it with proper photography gear: a full-frame sensor, studio flash, dye-sublimation printer. The kind of setup a photo lab would use, in a box that looks like it belongs in 1920.
The first event we took it to, the queue for the pod was longer than the bar queue within twenty minutes. Guests were comparing strips, passing them to people they'd just met, tucking them into jacket pockets like they were something to treasure. That's when we knew we were onto something.
unimoments now covers events right across Devon and the South West. Every booking still gets the same attention - a bespoke print design, a host who genuinely cares, and photos that'll still be on fridges five years from now.