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Darkroom Artist • Film Lab Owner | @DarkslideLab CHECK OUT OUR FUNDRAISER!!!! 👇🏻👇🏻

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The process vs the print
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View finder vs Photo
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@moosechildd “Your deposit is non-refundable, and has been donated to the local pride center. Thank you for your donation to protecting the lives of LGBTQIA members against homophobes like you!🧚‍♀️❤️”
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Time to get weird
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My family portrait
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Sunset went so hard at the lab tonight
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Big smiles for big cameras
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Saturday vibes
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I manifested my dream studio. I move my stuff in tomorrow 🥺🥺🥺
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@eswiftstudios
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One of my customers came by to drop off film and asked if he could take a portrait of me with my Hasselblad. The photographer is Allan Vega
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It’s time
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She’s gorgeous 🥲🥲 My white whale. A black paint m4.
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@eswiftstudios
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Self portraits on 35mm, 120, and 4x5 I want to be cool like Vivian Maier
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For the past four months in prep for my brother’s wedding, I’ve been working on this dress. I designed it, made the pattern myself, and sewed it myself. 100% silk charmeuse. I’m not a seamstress & never made a garment before- So im insanely proud of myself for pulling this off
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@eswiftstudios
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Spring wedding florals 💗
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In the studio
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Portra 400VC - Hasselblad 500cm
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Fall through Leica M-A & Tmax 400
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This is where it all began
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Fall in New England
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Idk about y’all but it absolutely is about the money for me. Idk how people can pretend it’s not. I would be a photographer broke or rich….if i sold anything or not. But it’s been my dream forever to sustain myself as an artist. So i won’t lie, it absolutely is about the money.
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@eswiftstudios
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Morning light
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First snowfall captured on 20 year old Kodak 160NC (what came before portra)
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I’ve been working on getting out of debt for such a long time. Today i paid off my highest interest credit card. I’m so relieved i can’t even explain it
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@eswiftstudios
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Me: i feel like I’m getting low on film Also me:
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@eswiftstudios
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FINALLY- after 27 hours exposing i have the print of my dreams 🥲🥲 8x10 platinum palladium print from a 4x5 negative + an enlarger modified to produce UV light. This process requires the emulsion to be made by hand- and this print will last far beyond my lifetime
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I think we can all agree that
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4x5 Self Portrait I’m very excited to share this image, it marks the beginning of my journey with large format. Shot & developed by me- had some developing issues as you can see from the streaks, but hey, it’s a learning process and I’m still super proud of this image
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The best models are also photographers, and the best photographers are also models.
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Set up vs Shot Large format hits different
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oh my GOD KODAK JUST POSTED THE PHOTOS ELI TOOK OF ME AND TAGGED DARKSLIDE ❗️
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Saturdays at the studio
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Portrait photographers are always catching slack for all the retouching they do.. but landscape photographers? Y’all out here COOKING your shots 😂😭
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There’s photographers who shoot woman provocatively and it’s really beautiful. Others look like all they know how to do is over sexualize woman. There a difference i swear 😅😭
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Two years, two jobo’s, and over 4,000 rolls of film later- Darkslide Film Lab turns TWO!!! 💛 i can’t even begin to express my gratitude for every single roll of film that has passed through my lab. When i count my blessings, i count darkslide twice 🫶🏻
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if you need me, I’ll be in the darkroom
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Slow your breath, take it all in Hasselblad 500c + Fuji Reala
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One time a guy saw me take a photo with a disposable and goes on to mansplain why on film you shouldn’t shoot into the sun.... to which, i took my hasselblad out of my purse... and then he said “I’m surprised you have one of those, only professionals usually do”
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BEING A FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER IS EXHAUSTING. today some random man on the internet tried to explain to me what a watermark was. so, it’s that time again. lady photogs, it’s time for a hype thread. drop your best pics, let’s hype you up! men of twitter, tag your fav women togs 🥰
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The tea is hot 🍵 grab some popcorn!Story time about how a sociopath i met at of my art shows fooled me into almost getting him citizenship while he was living a double life with his girlfriend of 2.5 years
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Pakon scan Vs DSLR scan
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Solace
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“i wonder if he’s thinking about me too..” hasselblad 500c + pro400h
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5 years ago vs today. My studio used to be in my living room. I had a single speed lite, and had to saw off the end of the seamless paper roll to make it fit. My studio now, 700 sq ft with 12ft ceilings and the best view of sunset in the whole city. Never give up on your dreams
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Photographers used to laugh at me when i would shoot film backstage at NYFW. Now they mail me their film for processing.
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Make tangible art. Print your work. Draw something. Frame it. Spend HOURS on it and then hang it up on your wall. Holding your art in your hands after pouring yourself into it hits different
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Lighting was very night today
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A year ago today, i changed the direction of my professional career. I made the best decision i have ever made. 1,700+ rolls of film later, Darkslide Film Lab is now one year old 💓
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My aesthetic
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HI FRIENDS
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Tell me you’re a gear snob without telling me you’re a gear snob 🙃
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35mm Vs 120
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Pick your poison
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Today I turn 26, and I’m feeling incredibly blessed to be able to welcome this new year of life from my darkroom ❤️
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GM
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I miss this camera
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Things every photographer has taken a photo of: -a basketball hoop -a cat -a window
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What to load up next?
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One day i want to be as cool as Vivian Maier. But hopefully while I’m still alive.
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Flatbed Scan Vs DSLR Scan
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Hey if you shoot medium format PLEASE WATCH THIS ❤️❣️ your lab tech thanks you 🙏🏻🙏🏻 this is how to properly seal a 120 roll after shooting
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Nola in studio at sunset Ektar 100 & Canon Elan IIE @nolakats
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the edge of spring & summer
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3 cheers for 3 years since opening Darkslide Film Lab 💛 time sure flies when you’re having fun
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Yo photographers can we like unionize and rebel against film prices increasing. Like we gotta do something y’all. There is power in numbers.
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Where are my Polaroid people??
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Self portraits on VERY old ultramax 800
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Today was genuinely perfect
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All my homies hate the dark bag
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Still can’t believe this space is mine ❤️
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When sunset hits just right >
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Photographers love to act like they are so far superior to models.... heads get so big they forget that models are quite literally 50% OF THE CREATION OF THE IMAGE. (Assuming no team involved) Models are part of your team!!! Your process!!!! BE NICE TO THEM
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Issa shoot day 😎😎
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I will never get tired of this light
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Two artists Two analog processes 33 Misfits Coming to opensea 11.17
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Lakeside at night Hasselblad 500c + Portra 400
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This weekend went from teaching a workshop in Brooklyn to showing my artwork internationally for the first time in Montreal. Definitely a weekend I’ll never forget 🫶🏻
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a room filled with cameras, photography books & good lighting
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Oh what a journey large format has been
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Up next:
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Did you really get published or did you pay some online magazine to feature you in their PDF
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A snapshot of Vermont through the hasselblad
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Me in my studio by Franklin Yeep (analogfps)
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YALL THIS IS NOT A DRILL OMG OMG ONG OMG 😭😭🥲🥲
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I CANT BELIEVE PEOPLE ON TWITTER JUST HELPED ME BUY AN INSULIN PUMP THIS COUNTRY IS SUCH A MESS BUT SERIOUSLY THANK YOU ALL I LOVE YOU ALL YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEINGS
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Love is dead, i love myself
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I can’t stop thinking about these pink stucco walls
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Today my journey with large format begins 🥳🥳
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Forever shooting and not sharing my photos lmao
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T shirt was a success and i am obsessed
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It’s a good day today
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U ever look at photos from a shoot and.... hate them all lmao
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Artist VS The Art
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Artist VS The Art
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My insulin pump has been broken since January. I was told i needed to find an endo to sign off on a replacement which took a few months. It went out of warranty in February, so now i have to pay $4,000 out of pocket for a new insulin pump. This is the cost of living for diabetics
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Film 🤝 Lofi photographers beats
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1 week in the mountains be like
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Fuji Reala 100 shot in studio Hasselblad 500c + Distagon 40mm One of my favorites rolls of film to date ❤️
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TR6 on the Hasselblad 🌤
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Ok but... who wore it better???
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These are my ladies
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Rainy days on the job
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