The Hobby Cult

large format photographers participate in a Hobby Culture.
meaning is derived from the details that can be discussed without difficulty or temptation. Doing very little is excused in the name of crafted quality. In the case of photography, they call themselves printmakers, although they never quite got the point of print.

the masters movement

the darkroom masters of 2K have moved onto digital.
more than a handful of the big time darkroom workshop given, silver slingers of the film age have moved onto the digital scene.
scenery doesn’t care who looks, nor how they look at it.

i’ve thought that the people for whom the arduous work of a darkroom would be the most apt to make use of digital tools. they have already mastered conflicting concepts, as well as gaining all manner of manual skills. the conceptual, the idea forming mode changes method but not basic understanding. learn a few new words, and bingo bango — new is newer.

the digit becomes digital