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Negative Printing in Kuşadası — My Process — Bayram Yılmaz

Negative Printing in Kuşadası — My Process

Fewer and fewer photographers in the world still print from negatives in a darkroom. Here is how I work through the process in my darkroom in Kuşadası.

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Why Print? — Bayram Yılmaz

Why Print?

The photograph you see on a screen and the print you hold in your hand are not the same thing. A digital file stays fixed; a good print keeps changing.

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What Is Silver Gelatin Photography? — Bayram Yılmaz

What Is Silver Gelatin Photography?

Light, silver and gelatin: a short guide to the darkroom print — how it is made, why it looks the way it does and why it lasts.

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It’s Not the Camera, It’s the Way You See

"Which camera do you use?" I get asked that a lot. I answer, but one thought is always in my mind: it is the wrong question.

In documentary photography the camera is a tool. What matters is knowing what you are looking for in a scene, feeling when you need to wait, being able to choose which frame not to take. None of that comes from the camera.

Changing cameras doesn't change your photographs. Going back to the same street for the fifth, the tenth time does. Your way of seeing settles, and you know better what you are looking for.

From Yemen to Paris, from the Aegean to the Black Sea — the frames I have taken in different places are the product not of the camera, but of the time spent in those places.