Richard Nicholson - Roy Snell, Last One Out series; London, 2006–2009 Last One Out is photographer Richard Nicholson’s…
Richard Nicholson - Roy Snell, Last One Out series; London, 2006-2009
Last One Out is photographer Richard Nicholson’s documentation of the fleeting London darkrooms.
Analog is a kind of elegy for the pre-digital era of sound and photographic production and Nicholson’s prints are the most elegiac components in the mix. He has photographed each darkroom on large format film, working in total darkness with a flashgun. The result might have been what Nicholson calls “a detached typology of modernist industrial design" in which the enlarger stands at the centre, strangely human in its form. Except that these darkrooms are also human dens, full of the clutter of human endeavour – Post-it notes, piles of prints, boxes of paper, toys, rulers, marker pens and batches of photographs pinned to boards.
- Sean O’Hagan, The Observer