Twelve year old girls in the DR or: AAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!

[Videbaek]

Wish I had my own home darkroom, I'd love to get my son and daughter in one to join in the fun. Photography is a very solitary thing on the whole, it's difficult to include family if you're not photographing them and my wife has been known to complain... "Some men go fishing. You go photographing." Also, the smell of fixer seems to be a serious irritant. Here's hoping you have decades of darkroom togetherness ahead!

[jnanian]

thanks for sharing!
both the experience and the image :)

john

[PeterAM]

My daughter picked up on photography at about eleven or twelve after watching the old man playing around with his cameras. She was into art (painting & drawing) at the time, but got hooked enough on photography to major in it at college. I built a serious darkroom while she was away for her freshman year;by the end of college, she was teaching me. She then got an MFA in photography;lived at home during grad school, which she did at night, while working as a gallery manager (high end NYC photo gallery) during the day.Used the hell out of the darkroom during that period.

She's now forty years old;my darkroom is dismantled, with all of the equipment packed up at her house. We both still shoot film, but it remains to be seen if the DR will ever go back together. Best part is that we occasionally shoot together, just like 25 years ago. The most interesting thing is that we see very differently, but there is also a strong commonality in a lot of our work.

[Rick A]

I feel that I am very blessed with a gifted child(actually nine gifted kids)who loves art in any form. She has a gift to sketch, as well as work a camera. She also sculpts little critters, and makes up little scenes for them. Lately, she has been working on animated shorts with some video gear we had sitting around. She writes short stories (great imagination)and illustrates them. She plays guitar, harmonica, recorder, and is teaching herself the trumpet.We gave her the first guitar at three. She plays like Bob Dylan, and understands Peter Gabriel. Yes, I am bragging about my youngest daughter, she deserves it. She shares her enthusiasm for photography with her friends, and they come around to give it a try. I am more than happy to teach them.

Rick

[F80p]

I am young and not married yet but i am happy to know that the art and passion of darkroom is being transferred from one generation to another. At least this will keep film alive!

[Robert Hall]

My daughter picked up on photography at about eleven or twelve ...

... occasionally shoot together, just like 25 years ago. ...


Thanks for sharing the story. I hope to be able to say the same or similar about my boy.