Photographic Garden Symposium | The Sustainable Darkroom

Описание: On Saturday 24th September 2022, we heard from 8 artists and researchers, whom for the past year have been realising research that links the garden to darkroom practice.

For the past year, located around the buildings and on the balcony of East Street Arts in Leeds, has been home to our Photographic Garden. This small collection of planters, plants, compost bins, water butts and structures has been a site for research and experimentation. It is a site for trial and error, and a place to develop and grow.

This garden has not just existed to look pretty or to clean the air from busy nearby roads, though both of these are valid reasons for its existence. The garden has been constructed as a space of active collaboration - for the plants, earth, water, fungi and air to be engaged with as equal participants in the process of analogue image-making.

Talks by:

Hannah Fletcher
Martha Cattell
James Sewell
Charlotte Smithson
Marjolaine Ryley
Matthew Beach
Michaela Davidova
Felix Loftus
Edd Carr