Analog Exhibition in London (Richard Nicholson)

Mike Crawford · Jan 21, 2011

Hello

Quick note to alert Londoners and visitors that Richard Nicholson's exhibition of darkrooms is on in central London again at the Riflemaker's Gallery till 5th March.
http://www.riflemaker.org/s-now

Video on the Guardian website of Roy Snell's darkroom.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2011/jan/14/photographing-death-darkroom-video

While I love the work, (and I admit to having my darkroom in the show), it's a bit of a downer for us printers. The opening felt a bit like a wake!

Black Dog · Jan 21, 2011

Sorry to hear that last bit Mike....heard about the show on radio 3 and it sounded really interesting.

Gingerjoe · Jan 28, 2011

fantastic, shall be seeing this monday! cheers for the heads up

AdClem · Feb 3, 2011

Mike Crawford said:
While I love the work, (and I admit to having my darkroom in the show), it's a bit of a downer for us printers. The opening felt a bit like a wake!

From http://www.riflemaker.org/s-now : "In Summer 2006, when photographer Richard Nicholson began to shoot images of professional darkrooms in and around London, some 204 were still in existence, continuing the printing of image from film-stock to paper within the new digital era. When he completed the project some three years later, only 6 remained."

I wonder what the figure stands at now.

Tom Kershaw · Feb 3, 2011

Richard Nicholson's work seems extremely negative. He has only taken one aspect of the analogue photography zeitgeist and then makes projections along the easy lines of "analogue is dying". His own comment about Photoshop being a superior printmaking tool is odd as well; after all working in Photoshop and working in the darkroom is not mutually exclusive or even a good logical comparison.

Tom

Mike Crawford · Feb 3, 2011

AdClem said:
From http://www.riflemaker.org/s-now : "In Summer 2006, when photographer Richard Nicholson began to shoot images of professional darkrooms in and around London, some 204 were still in existence, continuing the printing of image from film-stock to paper within the new digital era. When he completed the project some three years later, only 6 remained."

I wonder what the figure stands at now.

I personally don't think the gallery PR can have done any research to come up with this figure. I can think of over 20 professional darkrooms still in London either printing colour, b/w or both. That includes the bigger labs down to one man bands like myself.

Bob Carnie · Feb 3, 2011

Not to mention in the colonies , where we are still cranking out prints.

Mike Crawford said:
I personally don't thing the gallery PR can have done any research to come up with this figure. I can think of over 20 professional darkrooms still in London either printing colour, b/w or both. That includes the bigger labs down to one man bands like myself.

analogaddict · Sep 29, 2011

I wish i was in London.

Analog Exhibition in London (Richard Nicholson)

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