{"id":842,"date":"2009-11-27T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-11-27T23:05:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:05:58","slug":"last-one-out-please-turn-on-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also showing at Photofusion <\/a>until 27 Jan 2010 is Richard Nicholson<\/em>‘s ‘Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light<\/em>‘ a series of large colour prints of London’s remaining professional darkrooms begun in 2006.<\/p>\n

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\nRoy Snell’s darkroom.\u00a0 Richard Nicholson<\/em><\/p>\n

These highly detailed images were taken using a large format camera using an open shutter in the dark and illuminating them with a series of flash exposures. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the work areas, and although the web site describes these as\u00a0 “chaotic rooms marked with the patina of time \u0096 a world apart from the contemporary photographer’s shiny computer workstation<\/em>” they are all much larger and rather tidier than my own darkroom. And perhaps too I’ve gone rather further into “personalising” my own un-shiny computer set up.<\/p>\n

These images will have a particular fascination for those of us who are or have been photographic printers, and for those who know the work of the printers concerned – or know them socially, but it is perhaps work for a limited audience rather than for the wider public.\u00a0 They were certainly attracting a great deal of attention and comment on the opening night – where quite a few of those whose darkrooms were shown were present.<\/p>\n

As one of the limited number of darkroom geeks, I would have liked also to have seen the other ends of their darkrooms – the wet side rather than just the dry bench with their sometimes magnificent enlargers.<\/p>\n

You can see more from the series on\u00a0 Richard Nicholson<\/em>‘s web site<\/a>, where you can also see examples of his portrait work and an intriguing urban landscape series of garages and pramsheds<\/a> in Tower Hamlets, which are really just my kind of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also showing at Photofusion until 27 Jan 2010 is Richard Nicholson‘s ‘Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light‘ a series of large colour prints of London’s remaining professional darkrooms begun in 2006. Roy Snell’s darkroom.\u00a0 Richard Nicholson These highly detailed images were taken using a large format camera using an open shutter in the … Continue reading Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers","category-reviews-etc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}