My first time working in a darkroom was 1993 when I signed up to be on the journalism staff in 9th grade. It was in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I can’t recall my teacher’s name. The darkroom experience is amazing; I’m not sure if watching your images appear before you could ever get old.

I’ve been practicing photography ever since, and spent all of my free time in high school focusing on it, although my resources were quite limited. After high school it would be over 5 years until I’d work in a darkroom again, and then it would be in the context of graphic design at RISD. Now it’s been almost another 5 years, and I am beginning to miss it.

My goal with the photograms below was to create depth through texture, something that typically absent in photograms. I held slides, negatives, plastic sleeves, fabric, glass, and sheets of printed paper at different heights above the exposed paper. Some of them are stronger than others, but as a set I think they are quite interesting.