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davidmurphy
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India
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 Posted - 18/10/2007 : 05:26:58
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hi,
congrats on ‘DEFEND THE DARKROOM’ launch. i have gone through that and i appreciate your work on educating the youth About photography. |
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jimnoel
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USA
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Posted - 27/10/2007 : 16:57:01
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I am very happy to see your "Defend the Darkroom" campaign. As one who continues to use film, I think everything we can do should be approached.
I teach at Grossmont Community COllege in El Cajon, California. In January we moved into new space which enabled the doubling of our darkroom space to 34 enlargers, more than doubling our film development rooms to 10, and provided a separate studio. and classroom. There is also a 20 station digital photography room.
In this new facility we provide students with the opportunity to pursue both analog and digital approaches to photography. Enrollment is solid and we look forward to a long time continuance of our very good program in photographic education. |
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stepheninhull
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/10/2007 : 11:00:48
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Saving darkrooms is a worthy aim, but I think that we have to accept that the digital genie is well and truly out of the bottle, together with the fact that the young of today are of the sound-bite, want-it-now, totally impatient generation.
Maybe in fifty years, when we are all buried, there will be a reaction, and just as dilletante enthusiasts are taking up Daguerrotypography now, people will rediscover silver analogue photography.
Personally I'm trying to stave off the day when I retire all my analogue gear, and at present my family pics I shoot on 35mm colour neg film, but always have the lab make a scan of the negs which I'll keep on CD until such time as I feel sufficient benevolent towards my computer to start digital printing. Sadly the cost of digitising medium format shots is exorbitant, so my 6 x 9, 6 x 7 and 6 x 6cm shots stay only as negs.
I'm waiting for the digi revolution to drop in my path a really good cheap 5 x 4 inch monorail! (Oh, and a nice de Vere 5 x 4 enlarger) That'll be the day! |
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dpboreng
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USA
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Posted - 17/12/2007 : 03:45:50
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I'm a Photography & Digital Imaging major at Washington University in St. Louis, and like jimnoel, our department just moved into a newly renovated building on campus. Sadly, while our digital lab has tripled in size, our group darkroom is much smaller and the majors only have a very small 3-enlarger darkroom that's reserved for their use only.
One noteworthy addition to our department, however, is an installation room. This semester I created an installation in which I converted the room into my own personal darkroom. The goal of the project was to explore the idea of a space that conflated a scientist's laboratory with an artist's studio and a living space (there was a kitchen table and wallpaper, etc.).
By the end of my installation period (last week) I realized that the piece spoke as much about the importance and power of the darkroom as it did about the original ideas about science and art that I had intended to talk about. In this space I created cameraless photographic images that would be impossible to recreate through any other media, including digital photography.
While I agree that "the young of today" have become accustomed to the instant gratification of digital photography, I don't think this degrades the importance of "darkroom photography" in photographic education. In a way, the proliferation of digital photography is challenging many young photographers like myself to try to redefine what it really means to "photograph" and how we can express ourselves in new ways through an increasingly wider range of photographic processes.
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apeiron
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Italy
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 22:30:15
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Sorry for my english which is not so good.
I appreciate very much this project. Above all if I consider that at least in primary and secondary school (where I teach), any idea which involves photography goes on by voluntary effort of a few teachers.
Photography, analogue or digital, is culture. But, despite the great number of publications on photography today, it still seems a matter of secondary importance at school and, generally, on education.
So, welcome to project as yours and I think that photography needs not only to be narrated and not only to be showed. It also needs of care by which continuosly to define and to found its role on education, on visual education.
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Neil Sinclair
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/03/2008 : 12:51:25
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Here at West Lothian College we support your campaign.
News of upcoming/current events would also be appreciated as we are constantly having to justify our darkroom facilities in this digital era. |
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Defend the Darkroom Campaign
