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| The Darkroom Social: Isobel Markus-Dunworth & Remi Siciliano |
The Darkroom Social is a newly founded project by Isobel Markus-Dunworth and Remi Siciliano, based on Gadigal Land. The Darkroom Social aims to create a community of alternative photographic practitioners with an interest in material experimentation, collaboration and environmentally conscious practice. After teaching analogue photography for over a decade at the University of Sydney, Isobel’s current research investigates how historical photographic processes can be delivered with a reframing of sustainability and environmental ethics. Remi’s practice investigates how the material and receptive nature of analogue photography can lend itself to collaborative experiments and encounters with other organisms and landscape processes.
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Isobel Markus-Dunworth, 2023, 35mm film developer comparison of vitamin c, seaweed, turkey rhubarb and rosemary |
" ... During our residency we will collect surplus natural material from around the site (seaweed, fallen bark, invasive weed species, etc) to make into extracts which will form the base of alternative photographic developers to process analogue silver gelatin film and paper. This eco-praxis approach to image-making foregrounds minimising the environmental impact of traditional, extractive and toxic analogue photographic processes. The site-specific photographic developers we make will be used to process images of the landscape, where in an open-ended collaboration the site becomes chemically active in its own photographic rendering ... "
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Remi Siciliano, Manly Vale Creek, 2024, scanned 35mm film processed in Morning Glory weed (Ipomoea purpurea) from the site |
