Darkroom Archives: Athens Locked Away — Dec. 2020
<p>While clearing now dusty boxes of negatives in protective sleeves and matte prints on old Ilford paper in my basement darkroom in Athens, I was taken aback by how extreme the times of lockdown and restriction were. It took a while to realise just how strange, although necessary they may have been, the restrictions placed on our everyday movements were.</p>
<p>I had decided one cloudy day in December 2020, when strict restrictions on personal movements outside of your residence were still in place, to pick up my black Olympus OM-2, load it with a roll of old bulk-loaded Ilford FP4, push it to 400 (if memory serves right) and document what taking the metro from home in Elliniko to the centre of our ancient and august citadel, the Acropolis, felt like. I got back home and developed the roll, let the negatives air dry, printed some, scanned all the frames — and committed both the digital and analogue products to their boxes. Now uncovered as a sort of ‘time capsule’ of that most strange time.</p>
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