Showing posts with label Leica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leica. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Landscape, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020


 The week continues in the darkroom with the 35mm negatives from this past March in India. This print was made yesterday, while the negative was exposed on a very foggy Monday months ago. This time around in India was very different clearly, with the pandemic delaying my return and fog as well as clouds.

I remember this image as Imdadullah and Vaseem drove me around that morning. We visited a school very early and were met with this fog, so we decided to drive around and look for such images. As we drove back home we saw one of our favorite trees enveloped by a heavy fog. Thanks to these two gentlemen, we pulled over and they waited for me to make a few exposures, then we drove back to the school.


Monday, December 7, 2020

Farmer + Sugar Cane, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020

This print was made in the darkroom last month, from a negative exposed during my quarantine in India. While my flight home was cancelled and an additional six weeks were spent in the village, those weeks were spent with an incredible family and with my own room. The meals were made with love, and minus the chili thanks to my friend's family!

So much was different in India this year, including the weather. It rained more than it ever had in my travels to this country, and the skies at times turned almost black. This negative was exposed as we drove around the area looking for a group of sugarcane workers. They allowed me to walk between them and make images at the same time.

Having these negatives, made handheld with a 35mm point-and-shoot, means the world to me even more now.

Note: This negative was exposed with a Leica CM, printed onto Ilford Warmtone Fiber Base Paper and toned with Selenium.

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Farmer + Field, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020


Thanks to David from Dodge-Chrome, Inc. for processing all of my film from this most important year. This past visit to India was my first time in over a decade that a 35mm camera was taken with me, and the results have confirmed my faith in this beautiful format. Soon to be in the darkroom printing this!