Freestyle Newsletter (on Printing Revival)

Just got the Freestyle newsletter (I had subscribed to it, apparently) - and it mentioned revival of printing. While there was a nod to darkroom as well, there was the emphasis(or extended mention) on how more people were printing from digital as well - as an industry snapshot.

Quoting the intro:

"About 10 years ago or so, the buzz phrase in photography was "the lost years of photography" due to people not printing their images because more images were being taken but fewer of those images were being printed. That was then... and this is NOW! It was a dark era in photography. With the increased efforts of manufacturers and the synergy of the camera and printer and folks understanding how the paper influences the image... PRINTING IS BACK!"

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I wonder if it holds for analog printing as well, personally, I know I do both now, but does it hold for an industry analysis that darkroom prints are growing too?


PS: I thought it might be under the product forum, please move if wrongly posted.

I don't think the average photographer is going to print with analog methods. Analog printing is slowly becoming a fine art process. This makes analog prints special. The fine art world has also accepting inkjet prints as a valid medium also. The good news is that some university art departments are teaching analog photography and printing.

I disagree. I think the average photographer is using analog processes and the average snapshooter is using digital.

Do you think that photographer number has increased?

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