Collector finds treasure after developing hundreds of thousands of film negatives found in the trash

Get the Full StoryThomas Sauvin has spent nearly a decade trawling through film negatives people have thrown away.

The French photography collector buys photographic negatives that are destined for the scrapyard, and brings them back to his studio where he selects, classifies and digitises them.

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He has so far developed 750,000 photos over the course of eight years.

Sauvin's project first started in 2009 when he was travelling around China as a photography collector.

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