Defend The Darkroom

Welcome to Episode 3! It was a great pleasure to speak with Stephen Bulger this past month. I anticipated that this conversation would be filled with many interesting insights but I never thought that our conversation would inspire me to get back into the dark room! I hope you enjoy this episode and visit the Bulger Gallery soon!  (photo credit: Lutz Dille – “Three in a Window”. 1959)  Stephen Bulger (born Toronto, 1964) engaged in photography as a hobby throughout his youth. Eventually studying at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts, he became interested in the history of photography and began organizing exhibitions. He was asked to be the founding director of the Ryerson Gallery (located at 80 Spadina Ave., Toronto) where he sat on the exhibition review committee and managed over thirty exhibitions. After graduating from Ryerson in 1991, he worked in the photography department of the Ontario College of Art and began working on the idea of...

http://defendthedarkroom.libsyn.com/…/defend-the-darkroom-2… This episode we are talking with Steve Sherman. I met Steve a number of years ago when he came to Elevator Digital to lead a workshop on his method of split tone printing. Flash forward a number of years, a couple of workshops and a few parties and I was  attending the inaugural Photo Arts Exchange symposium in Connecticut with over 50 other photographers from across the US (I was the only Canadian btw). During the PaX symposium, Steve was interviewing everyone about who they are and why they were attending the symposium and what their process is all about but no one was interviewing Steve. So I remedied that… Steve has been a master mind of a number of different camera clubs, fundraisers and symposiums. He has been a mentor for numerous large format photographers across North America – but he also had a career and a family! I hope you enjoy our conversation. Here is Steve’s artist statement…. My int...

Welcome to our first interview, please click through to listen!  Bob Carnie has been working in the photographic industry for over 30 years now. He is an accomplished printmaker, colour corrector and project manager. Known to being a supportive collaborator, Bob has dedicated himself to helping educate new photographers and printmakers as well as supporting seasoned photographers exhibit their work. He is in a new studio space at 1681 Dundas West and I cannot wait to see the new works that will be created there. It was a pleasure to sit and talk with him about his past exploits and future. A short bio…. Bob Carnie is a Toronto-based photographer/printer with an international reputation for printing traditional and digital for acclaimed photographers, galleries and museums. He is fuelled by his hands-on approach, that he maintains throughout his photographic practice; being most in his element when working in the darkroom. Bob is also the owner of The Dylan Ellis ...

Are you tired of talking tech? Are you tired of wondering what possessed someone to take a picture of “THAT”? Does the idea of being driven to wake up at the crack of dawn seem ridiculous and you want to know why photographers do it? Welcome to Defend the Darkroom… We are talking to photographers and creatives about themselves – what drives them to do what they do and how they were inspired along the way. In looking at our tech based world, we realized that no one was talking about inspiration, desire, drive or creativity and we thought that it was about time. We hope that these interviews are interesting, affirming and maybe (hopefully) entertaining. These podcasts are meant to be conversations so…. If you have any burning questions for any of our upcoming guest – please do not hesitate to email us!  If you are dying to hear from a certain photographer –  email us ! If we forgot to ask a super important question – email us and we will definitely try and get it ...