Raywathi smiles co -form with the boundaries of a monochrome image dropped down on an ultra wide computer screen. This image serves as a mneemomic props to remember Manasai, a celluloid success of the 1980s. While the movie camera was rolling, the image was captured from the edge, yet the photographer Laxmikantan shutter pressed.

In the following minutes, Monitor is busy hosting other black-and-white images shot by Laxmikant during the production of other films from the day and from age, who to popular actors like Karthik and Rathi Agnihotary in the youth flush It shows.

Drawed from negative, these pictures are through the process of digitization. An increase has increased their glory. They are now being touched, mildly corrected, which is negative to fulfill the effects of canker time to hold a clamy palm. This process is coming out in the Darkroom of Chennai Photo Bienle Foundation in Kottivakkam.

The images of this ILK are being read for a grand performance by Nirmal Rajagopalan at Thiruvanmiyar MRTS Station Park as the third stage of CPB version 4.

A member of the darkroom, Ajay, has less about the project. Laxikthan, who lives in Kodamakam, the director’s colony, his life, rich in the memories of the celluloid past plaster on 10,000 negative, allowed access to a part of his installment for one day. Fifteen hundred images were paraded in negative from ten films: 76 images were dropped in the dark in negative, digitally digitized and returned to the owner.

In the practice of sharing a knowledge, a student like a student slipping a reply sheet on the side of the table for the sail sitting on the next table, Ajay offers a secretly glimpse in the display-to-B. Expect slices from Billa, Alagel Owthilai, Pudia Varapugal and Manasani, he closes the reels and stops less than the total revelation, and the dark team goes back to an enlarged fashion on an enlarged fashion.

Working with an increase. Photo Credit: Prince Frederick

This project is not much different from the regular busyness of this team. As the name means, the dark team is engaged with analog and alternative photography.

“We all who work here (in the dark) are artists themselves; We come from different backgrounds. For example, my colleague Anshul has a higher background of science. He is the one who knows chemicals and can make twics for chemistry to achieve results, ”says age, which manages the darkroom.

A roll call of the 9to5 team: Ayjaz, Ajay, Anshul and Chiranjeevi, who are definitely headed by Varun Gupta, a large -scale digitized world’s brain behind the concept of throwing a darkroom on the face of a large -scale world.

Team | Photo Credit: Prince Frederick

In a pat on the back for the team, the age noted that they are among the biggest vendors of film and film cameras in the country. Every month, he gets an order from 200 to 300 film rolls and film cameras. Beyond indifference and ridiculous digital-defined world, the innovation of going analog, traveling to life at a untoward speed and the idea of ​​doing things under the influence of a motion governor, increasing the attraction of film cameras.

“And there are many photographers who practice film photography commercially. We have some plans for commercial fashion and product photographers, when it matches the subject, the subject would want to shoot on film or medium or large format. You cannot shoot even those formats that are largely digitally. We work with 6.5, 8.5, 8 to 10, actually with old large format cameras, ”describes the age.

Darkroom sources said unusual stocks (truth of point-and-shooting, 30 years ago, but never sold) of film cameras and cameras, which were eager to have them.

The film is still fragrant around the corner from the old suppliers. “We buy the film, initially the motion picture-Balk film, originally for -100 or 400 feet of rolls, cut them and roll them in Kanastars. It is like a cotton factory when we do this: Now we have a machine that makes the work much easier, Ayuj says they also give sources to 36-frames.

A piece of history of the large-form camera occupies a corner of the room: a clearly anocronistic larger format camera with a large-scale bill created by Wegswari camera works.

“We still use this camera once a month or once a month, take it out and shoot with it,” Ajuj says.

There are many walls, asymmetrical and borrowed multi -faceted for analog practice in the darkroom. Ajui Detailed: In addition to the side of selling film camera and rolls, dark students and adults provide a place to discuss about the competent analog photography through workshops, the most notable workshops are dark 101 and dark 102.

Experience is not only about shooting on the film, but also to develop the film; And about using detail.

There is also a “wall” that gives people the key to the dark room to develop their film. “One of our regulars drives to use the darkroom to develop its roll once in two months from Vijayawada. And then there are other people around Chennai who come once in two weeks to use the darkroom. ,

The CPB Darkroom is located on 2/342A, 1 Cross Saint, AGS Colony, Kottivakkam.

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