The Analogue Lab Show: Alternative Photography on paper, glass and metal

The Analogue Lab Show: Alternative Photography on paper, glass and metal

The Mill, Angus Street

Launch 5pm

In the early years of photography things were very different to how they are now. Developing film and photographs was, and remains, a laborious and dangerous chemical process, an experiment where light meets emulsion in scientific laboratory. To some, analogue cameras seem nostalgic, but to others, like the artists who run the Analogue lab, alternative and historic photographic processes are exciting, even magical.

The Analogue Laboratory is a photographic studio run by a group of Adelaide based photographers within the new Mill complex. The artists are interested in the photographic methodologies of the past, but their practices are not anachronistic. They are attracted to the procedure as much as the result, and to the many processes that go into producing a photograph. The creative passion of this group of artists is one of their greatest assets, equaled only by their skills as photographers. This exhibition is an introduction to what the Analogue Lab can do and features work by Vera Ada, Alex Bishop-Thorpe, Alice Blanch, Aurelia Carbone, Andrew Dearman, Tony Kearney, Leanne McPhee, Amalia Ranisau and James Tylor. This exhibition puts the emphasis on the alchemy and magic of the analogue photograph, showing multiple ways that an image can be constructed. 

Text: Copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on The Thousands