Hi everyone, Just checking in to say hello, and to let you know that yes! we are still mailing out cyanotype kits, chemistry and handmade contact frames all over the world. I know cyanotype helped our little household (and so many others) keep the creative photographic juices flowing through the Covid lockdowns, and I still…
Much to our surprise, yes!For years and years we had no luck at all with pre-coating paper. When we tried the resulting images had been half-strength or the paper exposed itself inside the dark bag. Then quite unexpectedly we had a happy accident. For most occasions there is really no advantage to having paper pre-prepared.…
It’s been a while. High time for a little update on The Lab and what is happening next. IN BRIEF: WEBSHOP OPEN | DARKROOM & WORKSHOPS PAUSED First a confession: we may have hurt ourselves a little bit trying to sustain a community darkroom with no outside funding on a volunteer basis for several years.…
As I’m sure most of you already know – in February 2016 Fujifilm Japan announced that they would soon cease production of their amazing FP-100C peel-apart polaroid-compatible film. This was the last of the professional instant colour films available, and we’ve found it really hard to say goodbye. FP 100C was the backbone of one of…
Internet, meet The Analogue Laboratory. You guys have been flirting for a while, but it’s time to get some details out in the open. At the moment the Lab is pretty idle most weekdays. We think that’s a bit sad. Then we thought if we introduced everybody properly, maybe we could get this party started.…
A spooky as all get out, “the snow only just melted” George Eastman House. In April 2015 it was *my* turn to get incredibly lucky. With enormous gratitude to the South Australian Arts funding body ArtsSA, I tootled off to George Eastman House in Rochester, New York to undertake a week long Ambrotype and Tintype…
cyanotype photogram by Anna Atkins The original Blue Goo is still the most archival of the photographic processes, and nothing could be easier or more versatile. Originally invented by our Main Man Sir John Herschel, deep thinker, tea drinker and dabbler botanist – who was looking for a way to make quick copies of all…
I had no idea what my colleagues were so excited about. While I’d been away on a residency they’d found some new photonerdery to get all tripped out and obsessed on – nothing new on that score! But once I saw the images they were making, well… I had to have a looksee at the…
We were very fortunate to have two groups of ebullient enthusiasm come and learn about pinhole photography with us in the last half of 2013. As part of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material conference in Adelaide in 2013, hosted by Artlab, The Analogue Laboratory offered conference attendees an opportunity to hang…
Turns out running workshops is an extreeeeemely fun way to pay the rent. Way better than working longer at our cash-money employment. Of course, this is mostly because the Most Interesting and Excitable people keep signing up to learn new things! Which is, naturally, something we want to support as much as possible. In late…
