Tag: Analogue photography
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Quarter-plate
In 1969 my wife Susi’s family moved into a big, dilapidated 17th Century house in Wendover. Stacked loose in the attic were 64 quarter-plate glass negatives. The family moved out in 1989 and my brother-in-law Steve looked after these plates over subsequent decades. Last autumn (2023) he asked me to look at them. I scanned…
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Silver Photogram Workshop
Susi Arnott and I ran a photogram workshop for 250 people as part of an Elements evening at the Wellcome Collection. We turned a conference room into a huge darkroom where volunteer chemists explained silver’s role in analogue photography. Visitors could make images using what they had in their pockets, or had brought along especially, but the…