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"Sayang kamu beneran gak tahu kamera analog ku adadimana?" Teriak Yudis putus asa kepada Laras, istrinya.

"Emangnya di studio gak ada?" Laras malah bertanya balik.

"Gak ada. Udah aku cari bolak-balik. Itu kita bawa kan ya waktu pindahan?"

Hi, guys!

To celebrate all my new followers I’m having a zine give away this week!

So if you want a copy of my medieval tropes zine all you have to do is to follow this blog and reblog this post! I’ll be giving away 5 copies of this zine, so there will be 5 winners on this.

The result will be announced next friday, august 15h.

Designer of the week - 16/06/2014

Shaun Hill   |    http://shaunhill.co.za

Shaun is a designer and illustrator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is focused on typography, illustration, graphic design and character design. 

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Tokyo Darkroom Style 2

Thomas Beswick has been living in Japan for a few years and recently sent me some pictures of his darkroom setup. His layout really makes the most of a small room with minimal furniture. Thomas writes:

I guess my darkroom may look a little different from conventional ones. Although it has all the basic features of a darkroom, it lacks a water supply and is used from a seated position. Because I live in Japan I am often very busy with work, skating or photography. This doesn’t leave me a lot of time to relax. With this in mind I created a more chilled out environment for me to print in.

Standing up for 3 hours in a darkroom can grind you down after a period of time but drinking tea in a low chair while listening to your favourite tunes is a good way to make it more enjoyable. The room itself is just a regular room with the light blocked out by a dark curtain. It is easy to set up and pack away which is also an added bonus for anyone who doesn’t have much space to work in.

I usually print until it starts feeling like work. On average I’d say that I spend 2-3 hours per session. In that time, I can usually print about 8 fibre prints or 12 RC ones. It really depends on what I’m printing. If I want to print a predetermined series, I will take longer, but if I’m printing as I go, I might not spend as long on each print.

Since my darkroom has no water supply I have a larger tray filled with water that I put my prints in after the come out of the fix. It’s a sort of holding tank- and once I’m done with the printing session I take the tray to my shower cubical for the wash. After that I’ll squeegee them with a cheap car squeegee on the walls of my shower room. It’s a typical Japanese style cubical which has two big smooth walls. After rinsing the prints, it is the perfect surface to squeegee prints on.

I dry my prints in the shower room as well. I clip the prints from a laundry dryer- it’s a plastic thing with a lot of clips- to my bathroom doorframe and leave a tray underneath for any excess dripping. For fibre prints, once they have dried I put them in a thick book and place a laptop on top as a kind of heat press.

Thomas has made an extremely informative darkroom / printing tutorial video that you can catch on Youtube. If you are even remotely interested in learning to print or set up your own darkroom I highly recommend watching it. 

Check out Thomas online here:

Website (tumblr) tkbmedia.com

Flickr: flickr.com/photos/tkbmedia

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If you’ve got a darkroom in Japan and would like to share it through Tokyo Camera Style, please send me an email. 

「東京暗室スタイル」始まります！手作りの暗室写真や説明募集中。自分のアパートや家でプリントをしている写真家達、ぜひtokyo camera styleに暗室の写真をアップさせてください。