The lab is an essential stage in the film development process.
It is here that the captured light—the still latent image—truly becomes a photograph.
Each film undergoes a choreography of precise gestures:
the tanks turned by hand,
the retouching under the enlarger,
the prints slowly revealing themselves in the trays.
All in silence and the smell of chemicals.
It is sensory work, where you listen to time as much as you control it.
This materiality is unique to film photography:
a photograph that is born in darkness, grows in water,
and slowly dries in the air.
The development of 35 mm or 120 film, color or black and white, is done entirely by hand, using a single-use bath.
The choice of developer is adapted to each project, depending on the desired result.
The negatives are washed manually, by renewing the water, to ensure their best preservation.
Water use and chemical bath management are carried out in an eco-responsible manner.
Digitization is not central to my work, which remains focused on paper and physical materials.
But it can complement today’s uses: sharing images, preparing an edition, a book, or a print.
It’s a way of circulating photographs in a different way, without betraying their silver-based origins.
I digitize all types of media:
developed color or black-and-white film, slides, glass plates, photographic collections, silver-based prints, etc.
Digitization is adapted to each project, depending on its use:
web distribution, printing, publishing, retouching, or digital archiving.
Pendant 3 heures, vous découvrez un processus à la fois technique et sensoriel.
Vous apprenez à tout faire vous-même, tout en étant guidé pas à pas dans l’utilisation du matériel et la préparation des chimies nécessaires au développement de vos films — fournis lors de l’atelier.
Vous repartirez avec :
Vos négatifs développés, secs et prêts à être archivés
Une fiche technique récapitulative
Et l’envie de continuer à photographier en argentique
Lieu ~ Tartine et coquelicot, 9 place Joseph Bourreau, 37320 Esvres/Indre
Durée ~ 3 heures (16-19h)
Groupe ~ 3 à 5 personne
À prévoir ~ deux pellicules noir & blanc 35mm ou une bobine 120 exposées (HP5+, Kentmere ou équivalent)
Pause ~ petit aperitif maison
Tarif ~ 50 €/personne
Le tarif comprend les 3h de formation, le prêt du matériel, le support de formation, le petit apéritif maison, le feuillet pour archiver les négatifs
en option ~ numérisation de vos photos au tarif formation (5€/pellicule)
