a fashion film, Aravore AW2011 My first children’s fashion film – commissioned by Aravore to promote the Autumn and Winter 2011 clothing collection. Combining moving imagery with traditional still photography campaigns is becoming more popular, as channels for the distribution of rich media grow. Although my focus is very much on producing wall art for…
Category Archives: Technique
I had been working in a darkroom for about a year, before I first understood the concept of a Fine Print. It took another few years before I felt confident enough to claim I had actually made one. In traditional photography we start with film, the material with which a moment in time is captured…
The art of traditional darkroom printing is as mysterious as it is fascinating. I talk to Mike Crawford, author, and owner of one of the United Kingdom’s last remaining commercial darkrooms. Please tell us how you first got started in the darkroom Initially at school by joining the photography club. Later, I studied photography at…
Platinum printing is a slow art; thanks in part to the chemical and procedural processes which make it so, but also the slightly obsessive perfectionism that printers working in the medium tend to possess, and allow to slow them down. For me, a single platinum print can take the best part of a day to…
‘Oi mate!’, he grunts in a lazy cockney accent; ‘What’s that?’. Noticing a touch of sarcasm, I give him the short answer: ‘A camera’, I say. Then follows the predictable punchline of a seventeen or so year old with too much time on his hands: ‘Can’t you afford a real one?!’ he sniggers incredulously. In…