We chose #madeinthedark as today’s #fridayfavourites theme so we could shine a light on all of our talented darkroom printers, and give them a chance to show off their beautiful prints. @Vochoben Some more prints from the darkroom under the stairs on Ilford Multigrade RC Deluxe Pearl #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites #madeinthedark #filmphotography […]
Our 57th In Focus interview is with Simon Smars from Stockholm who is a professional fine art photographer. Simon works exclusively with limited edition handmade black and white silver gelatin fiber prints, using traditional darkroom techniques. He creates a mixture of minimalistic scapes paired with a melancholic somber, with scenes often stripped to its bare […]
This week’s #fridayfavourites theme was #grainlove. We love grain here, so we were extra excited to see everyone’s images. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We found it extremely difficult to choose, as we had so many amazing entries. barronorthrup Snow is in the forecast, for probably the last time this season. Here’s some […]
As a child I fell in love with the magic of the darkroom and of making Gelatin Silver prints. Watching a print develop fascinated me. In high school I had access to a darkroom working with 620 film (2.25 X 3.25 inch roll film.) and, consequently, I studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, School […]
This week’s #fridayfavourites theme was #croppednegs. When we take our negs into the darkroom or, share them on social media we often crop to show part of the frame, it was exciting to see how you chose to crop your negatives. @justgipsy #croppednegs Cropped scan of full negative print, and full scan of print. […]
HOW IT BEGAN I’m a great believer in serendipity. I was visiting a friend to deliver a print that she’d bought from me. At the time I was taking a lot of photos of graveyards, and she offered to show me a derelict cemetery which had been left hanging in the undergrowth on the banks […]
