TALKS:
Talk by Bryony Good, Ed Carr and Rachael Allain
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Talk by Steve Mcleod
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An Online talk by Steve Mcleod explaining how to produce a light sensitive photographic emultion using Walnut pigment, Lemons and Potato starch.
Talk by Hazel Davies, Gem Toes-Crichton and William Arnold
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Talk by Eileen White, Sean Roy Parker and Antonia Beard
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Talk by Farhad Berahman, Lucia Pizzani and Bindi Vora
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Talk by Aster Reem David, Cherelle Sappleton and Ngadi Smart
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Talk by Charlotte Padgham, Michaela Davidova & Katrina Stamatopoulos
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In this talk, we address and consider opportunities for recycling and reusing studio and darkroom waste
Talk by Rowan Lear and Eva Sajovic, joined economist Dr Lorena Lombardozzi
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Reconsidering photographic arts and the economy.
Talk by Liz K Miller, Noora Sandgren, Karel Doing
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New materialism theory & austainable photographic processes
Talk by Nettie Edwards, Matt Slater & Ameena Rojee
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Linked to London Alternative Photography Collective's exhibition and events at Brighton Photo Fringe; In & of The Land
“Thoughts on recycling - breaking up time, chopping it up and chewing it down. Ready to be reformed into something new, you can’t help but think of the journey that material has already been on. From conception to manipulation into a man-made material. The time it took to change the state of that material, it’s life value and meaning. Before it is then chewed up again, through a process of time and contemplation. To see that matter in a new state and form.”
Bioplastic Cyanotype image by Alice Cazenave
TEXTS:
The Ecology Of Grain
An Ecological Analysis of Gelatin in Photographic Film
(94 Pages)
by Ed Maughan-Carr
Stare into the caffenol to reveal your future
(25 pages)
by Edd Maughan-Carr
Reworking The Culture of Photography
(3 pages)
by Alice Cazenave
Reworking systems by James Hankey
“I wonder if we will look back on our experiments in recovering silver differently. It will no longer be a matter of ecological concern or the recycling of materials as an artistic method. What if silver became our new currency?
Investment in gold and silver is linked to times of economic uncertainty and distrust of central government. It’s heavily pushed by conspiracy theorists and the more paranoic margins of the internet as a way to survive currency inflation and devaluation.
But what if photographs and their silver deposits become a valuable commodity? Recovering silver would be rampant – everyone would become a scrapper. Family snaps would be snatched and dissolved, photochemical stores plundered, museum and gallery collections ransacked. Perhaps printed photos might vanish completely. ”
What exactly is an archive and how might its reactivation inform our current understanding of the world and ourselves?
Repurposing and Reworking archives by Nettie Edwards
Images developed using mint based developer by William Arnold
Film developed in Chard based developer by John A. Blythe
Bioplastic cyanotype experiments by Megan Ringrose
Circular Systems by Elsa Pont
Film developed in Kale based developer by Diego Valente
Root Phytograms on film and paper by Karol Doing
Dagie Brundert
The Photographic Garden Residency, 2021 - 2022
“The traditional darkroom is, at least until now, a firmly indoor pursuit. Hunched over a blinking enlarger, the room bathed in red light – the time slips by, and day disappears into night. But we at the Sustainable Darkroom believe that the darkroom’s future is rooted in the outdoors; in the shovel of soil, the falling rain, and the growth of green shoots towards the sun.
That is why, with the support of the Genesis Foundation, we have launched our Photographic Garden residency program, housed at our Northern Sustainable Darkroom facility in Leeds.”
Read more on The Photographic Garden, the artists in residence and the research they are carrying out here.