Look, I'm just sayin' 👀
From L-R:
🩵 Sure, why not, I'm game for anything 🤷♀️
💙 Just in case I manage a spot of #FP4Party -ing
❤️ Destined to be roll 23 of my ongoing project
...& a hint to our good friends at AW that they need to get over here!
#BelieveInFilm
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Also old prints, contact sheets and test strips are great when cut up and put into keyrings
Does anyone have suggestions of photographic/art book retailers that would maybe be interested in stocking my darkroom book?
So a book update. I was initially intending to distribute online via Amazon etc; but the amount of money that is added on for the consumer by the distribution system is ridiculous. To keep its price somewhere sensible, the book will be available from me directly & potentially some other suppliers.
The first ALMOST IN FOCUS PODCAST Photowalk:
Almost In Focus Podcast: World Pinhole Day - Lemington Spa’s in Leamington Spa | PhotoWalkMe
www.photowalk.me/photowalk/al...
I will be selling a small batch of my new book at The Photography & Video Show for an introductory price. Come to my talk on the Analogue Stage at 3pm 14th of March to find out more about the book and to pick up your copy. #darkroomprinting
Enjoyable time in the darkroom tonight for the monthly livestream. Printing more photos from my W. Eugene Smith homage-trip.
To mark the 76th aniversay of eugene smiths ou lished photos of the rhonda valley, my film of waljing in his footsteps is available now
youtu.be/8lDEvsVmTU8?...
What a day! House is a tip, washing piling up…BUT!
New book is finished and proof copy on its way to me
New film is finished at queued up for Friday on YouTube. - subscribe to it here: youtu.be/8lDEvsVmTU8?...
Father daughter darkroom time with some snake skin.
Housework can wait until tomorrow
Quick photogram session with my daughter using the first shedding of our pet python.
Fun morning spent doing work prints from yesterday’s Welsh valleys session. This afternoon has been a few house jobs mixed in with editing the video of this trip and why I spent 6 hours driving yesterday to visit 2 rows of terraced houses in the Rhonda
Up and out the door not long after 6am, 3 hour drive to Wales, 2 hours photographing, 3 hour drive home, film processed
Glad it works for you. I’ve tried photo session but doesn’t seem to fit right in my practice. The act of photographing/making/creating to replace take or shoot works but to explain the act of going to a place to photograph and observe a thing, session isn’t quite there for me.
In almost in focus podcast last episode (the photographs we don’t make) we talked about as students how we made photographs that did TAKE. How quickly our tutors pulled those photographs apart and how much we grew in our contextual awareness. I think that is the difference
Totally agree. I’ve also found it interesting in how different age groups tend to understand this. Mixed-to-negative feedback to the idea from older photographers - stuck in their ways perhaps? But my students (16-18) nearly all appreciate the mindset and try to adjust their own language.
I am very excited for this week. For about 20 years I have wanted to go to a particular small village to see with my own eyes the location of my favourite photograph. This week I am doing it. Stay tuned to my Instagram and YouTube for updates on the trip and following darkroom sessions.
@warboyssnapper.bsky.social Yep. I’ve written about it since as a blog on 35mmc and got a bit of stick back from people who don’t think the same; but yes I try very hard to avoid this type of language and always correct myself when I slip - some terms like “photoshoot” are harder to avoid though.
New video up on YouTube. youtu.be/Wb_YNXA0n1c?...
Making of my print: Monstera
On and off for a while, I have been writing a book about darkroom printing. Aimed at first time printers and those who know the fundamentals and want to take their printing up a notch.
“Light Paper Time” will hopefully be available by mid-March.
New episode of Almost in Focus now out. This time the theme is the photographs we don’t make…
available at all the usual podcast places
Fantastic time photographic a new local festival based on a recently discovered legend about the town. Tmax400 in the yashica, and FPP films in the Voigtlander and a pot of earl grey along the way
Paraphrased to fit as a post here, from Gene Smith’s chapter of this book.
The atmosphere of the darkroom is important. It has to…have room to move around in while working. And it must have music. I don't think I could ever stay in the darkroom without it. It has been my best concert place. It's also where I meditate. I do a lot of things in the darkroom all at once.
Just got this book today. It’s been on my wish list for years and managed to get a copy for £5! Only had a chance to skim through so far but it’s already got me super excited on things to try. I’ll never get to have a darkroom lesson from Gene Smith. This book is as close as it gets
More photo news today: episode 7 of Almost in Focus went out this morning on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube etc. this week Toby and I talk through our photographic NY resolutions.
I’m excited to say that I’m speaking again at The Photography & Video Show this year. This year I’ll be talking about my love of the darkroom. 14th March 3.00
In the latest episode of Almost In Focus, we talk to Arno Peever, CEO and brains behind Vintage Visual and the AGO processor. We talk about its potential in education beyond home use. Listen on Spotify, pocket cast, YouTube etc: open.spotify.com/episode/5sO1...
#almostinfocuspodcast
An exciting episode for me this week on Almost in Focus. Getting to interview one of my contextual influences l: Homer Sykes. And what an engaging guy he is. Have a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3rNA...
Found him with the help Laura Nobel; Bradley Richards. Seems he does more painting now. Here’s a link: www.instagram.com/bradleymakes...
I remember when I worked at a gallery years ago we represented a photographer who worked like that. It was beautiful. Cuba at 6400 iso on 100 iso film and then hand printed. Wish I could remember his name.
