No. 05

Note

Studio Lintel, Marseille

A week in the darkroom

What Saskia does between Monday's negatives and Friday's prints.

Studio

3 min

A weathered turquoise wooden door with glass panel

Monday is developing. Tuesday is contact sheets. Wednesday is deciding, which takes longer than anyone expects.

Thursday and Friday

Thursday is test strips: five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen. Friday is the real prints, hung to dry on a line, and Saskia's rule that nobody talks while the enlarger runs.

No. 02

Journal

Keep reading.

Three more notes from the studio.

A bright teal door with ornate details and mailbox

Process

5 min

We draw the way in before we draw anything else. Here is what that does to a project.

A weathered red double door under a stone archway

Materials

4 min

Three things we learned from finishing eighteen hotel rooms in lime.

A doorway leading to a set of stairs

Light

6 min

How an arched opening throws light differently from a rectangular one, with photographs.

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Next door

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