Alternative Darkroom

Specialist in alternative photographic processes from smartphone for @Phonarnation & @_vimpt

[Alternative Darkroom @darkroom_craig]

Minion Rush by Gameloft https://t.co/2OPUI3yfei

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

A huge congratulations to my wife, her book was published today! Here’s the link ⬇️. Get yourself a copy! ✨🥂✨

[ProjectX_is @ProjectXis]

Back home after an awesome day helping the @DavidEDrew campaign.#VoteLabour2019 #Corbyn4PM #dogsforlabour

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

Free Salt Print of antclick’s amazing image! Thank you for your submission.
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At Sea, on board Seawatch 3 (2019). Captain (Persona). Carola Rakete (L), the captain of the Seawatch 3 NGO vessel, talks with a crew… https://t.co/n5iWtzdS9c

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

My amazing friend Ursula Austin is fundraising for Allsorts. Donate to Ursula's JustGiving page https://t.co/KDiFchVWcL

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

Free Salt Print of vincy.lacroix’s beautiful shot! Thank you for your submission. #vimptfreeprint #vimpt #vimpted #altprocess #print #free #filmisnotdead #printisnotdead https://t.co/lYsz3bdoK5

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

[...T]he workings of power are more resistant than ever to the evidentiary truth claims of visual and news media. Long-cherished assumptions about the revelatory powers of visual documentation have been cruelly challenged
by the selective blindness of the democratic
polity.

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

[Photography …] has come to shape not only what we now understand as portraiture but also the individual and his or her relation to consciousness, memory and embodiment.
Celia Lury. Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity. London and New York: Routledge, 1998

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

Thanks to @steffen_siegel for sharing this great text by Christoph Ribbat https://t.co/FFlBWOjd0k

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

As photographic images proliferated, so did the anxieties concerning them. If the exact copy, a reproducible positive, obliterated the notion of the original in mechanical reproduction, what happened to the self whose semblance was reproduced in photographic portraits?

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

Beginning in the late 1850s, the free circulation, collection, exhibition, and exchange of photographic portraits in the form of cartes de visit operated much as nouns do in a language, as they substituted familiar images for persons, places, and things actually seen.

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

As a small, relatively inexpensive portrait photograph that was intended for circulation and that people employed as a kind of social currency, the carte de visite compellingly demonstrates that the public, circulatory, ephemeral, and performative nature of digital photography

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

Less than a week to go! Vimpt’s New Exhibition - Iran: In Parallel Stories - curated by @babak.kanaani - May 13th-16th - at the Whitespace Gallery, in the beautiful city of Edinburgh! #vimptfreeprint #vimpt #edinburgh

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

'Banality is a problem of late capitalism, a creation of macroeconomics, and an effect of material culture. [...T]he banal is a kind of shorthand for those routines and value systems of high capitalism that are as annoying and trivial as they are obligatory.

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

One week to go! Iran: In Parallel Stories - curated by Babak kanaani - May 13th-16th - at the Whitespace Gallery, in the beautiful city of Edinburgh! #vimptfreeprint #vimpt #Iran #Edinburgh #streetphotography

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

‘…the numbing emptiness of the city as found in so many contemporary photographs can in part be understood as a symptom of disciplinary relations internal to photography as an art form and a popular cultural practice. These starkly depopulated urban settings are the result of

[without_barthes @WithoutBarthes]

'Photography as such has no identity. [...] Its history has no unity. It is a flickering across a field of institutional spaces. It is this field we must study, not photography as such.’ John Tagg, The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories.

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

* "Iran: In Parallel Stories"
Upcoming group photo exhibition in Edinburgh - Scotland | Whitespace Gallery | 13 - 16 May 2019 | Opening: Monday, May 13, 2019 at 17:00 | Curated by Babak… https://t.co/NvkZU4txT8

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

Super excited to announce Vimpt’s New Exhibition - Iran: In Parallel Stories - curated by babak.kanaani - May 13th-16th - at the Whitespace Gallery, in the beautiful city of Edinburgh! https://t.co/sV0quOb0Ig

[Vimpt @_vimpt]

Petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. https://t.co/SSdxrdqXk8