Charlie and breadchair

This is my friend doing her MA dissertation. Yes it's a chair made out of bread. No it's not all fresh and most was donated by a supermarket and was out of date and going to go in the bin anyway. Not the most flattering of poses but I think the face makes up for that.

Figured van dyke brown was appropriate for bread photos so made enlarged negatives. Now looking at it, I see there's no separation of tones between Charlie's shirt and the wall, so it's not as good as I thought... Very flat lighting made everything a flat gray.

Originally shot on HP5+ developed in Rodinal taken with my Finetta 88 camera. Enlarged onto APHS ortho litho 8x10 film developed in Ilford Multigrade for about 35seconds.