Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.
Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.
I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.
I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
