August 2020

Note: If you are offended by images of people who may hold political views different to your own, please go elsewhere. What a tumultuous few years it's been. Before the drama of COVID-19, the UK was already in political and social turmoil. Brexit, Boris Johnson's attempted pro-roguing of parliament and Health Secretary Matt Hancock's drastic cuts to the National Health Service led to waves of protests througout 2019 (at one point almost on a weekly basis). Photographing protests and demos takes me back to an important point in my photographic journey...and actually the reason I learned...


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If you have a darkroom and are not making 'proper' proof contact sheets, you really should be. I've shot film for more than 40 years but I've only consistently made proper proofs for the past few. These days I make one for every film I shoot. A proper proof not only helps you choose which images you want to use, but also tells you how good your negatives are and how easy they will be to print in the darkroom. After a one time test, proper proofs are super quick to make (much faster than scanning); I can proper proof ten films in about 25 minutes in the darkroom, far quicker than I could scan. A...


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