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Colin Page
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Colin Page
Colin Page

Colin Page

Country: United Kingdom
Birth: 1967

I begun my journey into photography thanks partly to the Duke of Edinburgh Awards project and the help of my Dad who set up a make shift darkroom in the cramped spare bedroom.

I worked in a professional darkroom and then art studio for nearly 20 years.

Using many different film cameras, usually borrowed or second hand, I always developed and printed my own pictures.

The new technologies replaced the darkroom and I was made redundant. I tried many different things including an HND in photography as a mature student.

BUT……

After a long near death illness, and with the help of my family, I took up photography again.

Mostly ‘street photography’ and with new digital cameras. Using a computer instead of a darkroom but only doing that could be done in a darkroom.

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1990
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