My Darkroom I have always liked the quote of the master printer Ansel Adams “Photography is like music, the negative is the score and the print is its performance”. Every performance is different. That’s so true, the prints I do now I are often different from the ones I did a few years ago. Better […]
It’s been over 6 months since we launched our first Lockdown Session and in that time we’ve spoken to many fantastic photographers and darkroom printers. Continuing in that vein, we’re thrilled to share this week’s In Focus interview with Nashville based, music and portrait photographer Laura E Partain. Background Share your favourite image / print […]
It’s week 25 in our In Focus interview series and this time we set our questions to Arkadiy Shlein who was nominated by Lina Bessonova back in August. Arkadiy is a Russian large format photographer and analog printer with a classical style. BACKGROUND SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE IMAGE / PRINT SHOT ON ILFORD FILM AND TELL […]
When you hold a hand printed FB darkroom print there is something special about it. It has been so amazing to see how many of you are making FB prints in your darkooms today. It was hard to choose just 5 images for this week’s #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites #fbprint theme but we got there in the […]
This week we shared our latest ‘How to’ video on YouTube which is all about our range of photographic darkroom papers. As we knew this was coming, we thought we’d tie in this week’s #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme of #rcprint. NEXT WEEK’S THEME #KENTMEREFILM Made at our factory here in Mobberley, our […]
We first met Ray nearly 2 years ago when he agreed to be part of our ‘Legends of Skateboarding’ ILFORD Inspires YouTube series. We were blown away by not only his talent as a musician, photographer and artist but also his genuine humility as a person. He was one of the first people that we […]
