This week I’ve been thinking a lot about my own home photographic practice and a practice I had recently come across at London’s Stitch Festival, Slow Stitching. I had never heard of it so squeezed myself into the stall to have a look.
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For nearly a decade I have worked with coffee to develop my films, black and white and colour alike. Before I started drinking Flat whites, lattes and French pressed, there was hot chocolate. One drink that inspired my next experiment, developing black and white film in a Chocolate Developer.
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There is so much literature and research on memory and photography that it is hard to know where to start. Therefore, I wanted to begin and open this conversation by sharing a photograph from my past. The following memory is one I believe only I will remember and concerns an image I no longer have.
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Who would have thought my favourite photo exhibition in Stockholm would turn out to be an exhibition about the architect Gunnar Asplund?
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One day, as I was laying on the sofa, my friend Molly messaged me to tell me about Stockholm Gallery weekend. As I had been off social media, I hadn’t seen anything about it but quickly booked it off of work before they sorted out the next schedule. Great, I thought, I could finally go immerse myself in some art for a day. So I wanted to share with you my favorite moments from the weekend.
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…My brain has been full of questions interrogating my own feelings concerning my creative work and practice. My one plan for October was simply to ‘reflect’ but each question I asked myself produced more. Sentences, phrases, words and letters became so overwhelming that they melted from their structures into a dense fog which I could no longer see through.
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I got Covid again. During this time I’ve had an unintentional Social Media break. Yes I know, I was sleeping a lot so obviously, but I feel so much better for it. I’m still finding it difficult to find a balance but I feel a lot less pressure to be on there and am reconnecting with physicality. What better way to get back to the physical than a market?
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I am super excited to share the launch event of the latest Sustainable Darkroom publication re·source which will feature my recipe for Pumpkin Spice developer for black and white film!
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Back in February I had purchased a small bundle of carte de visite (CDV) from a second hand shop in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, two of which were taken by female owned photo studios. Hallgren was the first of the collection I had explored and today I am sharing what I found about the second photographer, Josefina Franke. Like the Hallgren post, I wanted to share a little insight into the way I work and research so buckle up because this is a bit of a long post!
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In Autumn of last year, I posted a news update about my series ‘Please?’ being accepted by Shutter Hub for their next exhibition ‘Your Body Belongs to You’; co-curated by Karen Harvey (Shutter Hub Creative Director) and Marisol Mendez (Shutter Hub member and photographer of MADRE). I am super excited to announce the finalised dates for the show!
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