I love the idea for the series. As a film photographer who dabbles in the digital world, I agree with your dual approach. While I enjoy both, there is nothing like spending time in the darkroom. Creating a print is significantly more pleasing than printing an image. While both May provide the viewer similar pleasure, the process of creation cannot compare.
This was inspiring, thank you! Dont know much about the country but I do enjoy photograph of communities that are normally over shadowed. Are you from Bangladesh?
awesome video and series, very much look forward to more! hopefully i will be able to do my own dark room printing one day. I did just do my first 6 11x14s from the lab, definitely going to be printing a lot more often. Thanks as always man
With so much darkroom stuff being given away, most people, with some patience, can acquire most of what they need. Shoot with Coops had his darkroom setup sitting on a cart that he rolled into place when needed. My own darkroom is the same depth as my washer and dryer in my one car garage and runs from the side of those appliances to the garage door, 84 inches away. It fits 11 X 14 trays and two people. I hope your video inspires people to get creative and find a way to darkroom print.
Looking forward to this series! I’m curious how you were able to set up your video cameras without having light from the camera expose your print in the dark room. Did you have the put a red filter or something on top of the led screen?
Thanks! I pre-focused and composed manually before lights off. My camera lets me flip the screen away. Then I put some duct tape over the viewfinder in case it emits light
Definitely something to be said about being able to physically hold something in your hands. I feel like everything digital of mine is eventually lost. One of these days I will get around to sorting my negatives and print some photos.
I may be wrong but I think that Ilford Galerie paper and other Ilford branded inkjet papers are made by a company called Ilford in Switzerland. There is no connection between that company and Harman which is the company in the UK that makes film, darkroom papers and chemicals and other accessories under the Ilford and Harman brands. The separation results from when the respective businesses were sold by the then owner some twenty years or more ago.
If you head to the Ilford site (linked in the description), there's an About page detailing various stages of the company's history. It's quite fascinating (for me at least!), and sheds some light on the structure.
They are not the same company as Harman who produce the black and white film (HP5, FP4, etc), paper and chemicals. They do produce (or at least re-badge) the Ilford retrocolor film and the C41 kits. It’s a messy split, and they’re not really the same company at all anymore although they obviously share history.
So beautiful man. I really loved the shots especially at 5:25 Love the leading line layers and the opposites in eye contact and emotion. And the exposure itself came out perfect which is hard to do on boats like that. Looking forward to more!
That's true, a great photo needs to be printed and maybe published in a book or a photo series. A digital file can never compare in people's reaction and feeling to a physical photograph or image!
