Entering the Darkroom

While we are now surrounded by a never-ending number of pixels with our smartphones, there once was a time where the process of developing photographs took something much more significant than pointing and clicking with our phones. Of course we had to take the pictures and then we took them to a place called “the darkroom.”

Did you ever develop pictures in a darkroom? There was something a bit eerie, but also peaceful about the darkroom. Pictures would be strung along the wall like a clothesline in various states of development, it was a wonder to watch images slowly appear over…