Javier Galán
Photos & photocollages
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Photo Lab

Two rooms. Photos — silver gelatin portraits and pigment landscapes. Photocollages — what happens to the negatives I decided not to print.

Method

The darkroom is
still a wet room

The portraits are shot on film and printed by hand on fibre paper. Nothing is retouched. If a sitter blinked, that is the picture.

The collages go the other way — negatives stacked, scanned together, emulsions lifted and re-laid. They are the only place in my work where I allow accidents to survive untouched.

The photographer Photo Lab · Madrid