Those of you who enjoyed the round up of London's last darkrooms a couple of weeks ago in BJP will also enjoy Richard Nicholson's recent project - inside London's last darkrooms.
Film's graceful decline is generating an interesting subgenre in photography. Last year Michel Campeau published a quirkily appealing book with Nazraeli Press called Darkroom, while we published a feature on Kate Jackling and Mark Pattenden's tribute to Polaroid's Dutch factory. Be great to hear about any more projects...
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Hi there,
Its a very interesting article about the decline of darkrooms. Having said this, there are still hundreds of black and white darkrooms still in use across the UK.
Its seems odd, an industry with few darkrooms in comparison with an education industry where i believe more has to be done to educate students, still has just as many operating successful dark rooms still in operation.
If only the two could communicate and open their doors to hiring out darkroom space to the profession, wouldnt every one be happy?
(ps to make myself clear, I believe there is a hell of alot of good education in photography being taught, what there could be more of perhaps is the tie in between education and industry, graduating from courses)
Posted by James Cannon | April 17, 2009 10:47 AM
Posted on April 17, 2009 10:47