Make sure you follow the link to Cubitt’s darkroom corpses. Love those images.
Richard Nicholson, ‘Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light, a survey of London’s remaining professional darkrooms’
“This project, shot on 4”x5” film, documents London’s remaining professional darkrooms. It is based on my nostalgia for a dying craft (there are no young printers). It is in these rooms that printers have worked their magic, distilling the works of photographers such as David Bailey, Anton Corbijn and Nick Knight into a recognisable ‘look’…
Since starting this project, I’ve become a late and reluctant convert to digital photography. I now spend less time in the darkroom and more time in front of the computer. With film I had a network of contacts across London and I felt embedded in the city. In comparison, digital feels disembodied.
I miss the darkroom’s ambience, the physicality of dodging and burning, the shaping of the light.”I shut down my darkroom in late 2000, and haven’t missed it once. I dismembered it and made photos of the corpses here, when I was thinking of selling it.
Source: claytoncubitt
