Skin grain 2

One roll one town and a city, plus 2.5 years =

Cork, July 2013

Tramore, January 2016

Black Sun 3/7/13 with Richard Youngs, Áine O'Dwyer and Vicky Langan

This was the last Black Sun gig, and it was great. I had forgotten I'd even taken any photos.

Found film (I mean, my own film) (Which was never lost but anyway)

I recently started developing film at home again, after a long time away from it. I wanted to get images as grainy looking as possible, and on the advice of the lab technician at John Gunn's in Dublin i developed a couple of rolls to her instructions ie use paper developer, 4/1 for 4 minutes, regardless of the film type or speed. Surprise surprise, I'd labelled some old films wrongly and so went ahead and accidentally double exposed them.

2013 revisited

In August 2013 I put a roll of film on a reel and put the reel in a developing tank before I realised I had no chemicals to process it; I got round to developing it today. To up the grain visibility I developed it in paper developer (1:4) - as recommended by the kind darkroom lab technician at Gunn's.

Of course, most of the photos on the roll were of pole tops.