This is the darkroom where I find my light
November 27, 2011
The process is simple. You need to have gone out there and taken the photos, chased the light, played with angles and perspectives, felt the ‘punctum’… Experimented with different types of films and different cameras, tuned in to the different shutter speeds and apertures… You need to have learned how to see in black and white and transform the colourful reality into shades of grey or into darkness and light.
Once you’ve gone out there, lived it all, experienced it all, you get in the darkroom and dissect life once again. You have to develop the films just the way you let feelings and thoughts sink in… The process involves chemicals and safe light… I like the concept… Just as you can’t talk to just anybody about your deepest feelings, just how you cannot really open up to just anybody to let them see your true self… Films need first complete, darkness, a good wash with chemicals and safelight the moment you try to reveal them on a piece of paper.
The process is almost a reliving of the moment of taking the photo … It’s like going back and trying to dig out the picture you had in your head and make the one you print match the original. In some cases distorting the original mental picture is what you want to do… With every photo you reveal a piece of your soul or a projection of what you’d like to be…
The process is simple… What is black and white on paper contains infinite tones of grey that reflect millions if colours what is the mood of the photo most probably reflects your mood whilst taking the photo. Whatever story you are trying to say, you’ve lived it already.
