Imad Djebarni.
Software engineer, film photographer, and the solo founder of Pellica. Based in Paris.
I started shooting 35mm in 2013 with a Pentax ME Super my grandfather left behind. Twelve years later, I shoot 35mm, 120, and the occasional 4×5 — Tri-X, Portra, HP5, Velvia 50 on a good day. I run a small French company, Rollify SAS, from a flat in the 3rd arrondissement.
Pellica is the app I always wanted to use. Every existing film logbook felt like an afterthought — clunky forms, no light meter, no lab map, no scan matching. So I built one. Then another version. Then a real product, on both iOS and Android with full feature parity. No VC funding. No ads. No data sales. Just one app that gets better one release at a time.
What I write about
On the Pellica blog I cover the working photographer's view of the analog ecosystem — film stock releases and discontinuations, camera launches, lab quality, push/pull development, scanning workflow, and the occasional take on the analog revival.
Engineering background
Ten-plus years building consumer mobile and web products. Native iOS (Swift), native Android (Kotlin), Next.js + React on the web. Pellica is the first product I've built end-to-end as a solo founder — from the SwiftUI components and Supabase schema to the marketing site you're reading.
Get in touch
For press, partnerships, feature requests, lab submissions, or just to say hi about film: [email protected]. I answer personally, usually within a day.