Kodak was one of the pioneers in the market of film photography, but, as acknowledged by its leaders, was late with the transition to digital technology.
As a result, the company was unable to withstand competition from other manufacturers of digital cameras.
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On the advantages of dying film photography to digital Showa Novgorodtsev talked to photographer Sacha Manovtseva.
I made this picture in 2006 for a series of photo labs disappearing: while they were closed one after another - the photographic industry rapidly went from film to digital mode.
This laboratory belongs to a professional fotopechatniku Roy Snell. I love this picture, it sounds swansong film photography.
Then most of the photographers that I know have already switched to digital. But I was shooting on film and printed my own pictures in a rented lab.
Just ten years ago were full of young lab photo printing work for magazines such as Vogue, Dazed. But in 2006 the premises were completely deserted.
In one of those days when I printed my photos, my eyes fell on the enlarger. I just had the idea to document laboratory devices, as examples of modern design. But when I started to shoot at other laboratories, such as the one in the picture above, I quickly realized that my project is much wider - I document the personal workspaces certain photographers.
Laboratory Roy reflects his personal characteristics. Here the mountains of boxes with all kinds of photo paper, strange things like clay shoe with a bird's feather, a parrot or a portrait of Van Morrison on the wall.
In this picture, I like a clear geometric forms large, including two enlargers. And the strange color of the walls: Roy painted them in blue and green, after he created the theory that the red light in the laboratory safelight effect on the psyche of a depressing. This blue-green color should weaken the effect.