From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
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Touring the darkroom and studio
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
Touring the darkroom and studio
Keith Carter: You know I am thinking I need to oil my doors. Chris Orwig: (laughter) I like the sound of it. Keith: I do too. I don't know why. Keith: Here, let's start with the darkroom. Chris: Okay. Keith: Now as my colleague, this is a darkroom. Keith: Do you remember this? Chris: Yes I do. Keith: I still work in one. Chris: It's exciting to be here. Keith: You can smell the fixer, sodium thiosulfate, but I work in here three days a week when I am in town, and I print generally three hours a day, sometimes four. And I can keep abreast if I do this on a real schedule like that. And outside, which I will show you in a minute, we have a digital darkroom, because the business, even though I am more in the art-oriented area, the business of art or photography is really digital now. I'm forever having to send digital files somewhere, reproduction, so on and so forth, so we do both and I have student workers who work 20 hours a week, several days Keith: a week here in the studio, two of…