Journal

Homage to the contact sheet

I have to say, there is something wonderful about manhandling a contact sheet. Not in a tear it up and throw it away sense, but rather knowing this is the only process between loading a film back and processing and printing a final perfect image that one needn’t worry too much about spilling a cup of tea over. So with that in mind, I love adding dots and stars and scratching around with marker pens. It’s the photographic equivalent of […]

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The garage sessions

The itch to control artificial light again was strong. Clearing the double garage of its cars and trawling through the remains of what’s left from my studio era, I invited four friends to partake in a therapeutic day of shaping light.

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