Dust from the Darkroom

In 'Dust From The Darkroom' Victoria Smith develops her ongoing research of employing dust within photographic-practice. Utilising over a decades worth of dust collected from her Universities darkroom enlargers, Smith revisits the space to create photograms; a method of fixing images through direct contact on sensitised surfaces. A portrait of the darkroom emerges by fixing and reducing the transience of the redundant, and mundane traces left by the inhabitants of the space, to a more cherished photographic-object.

Victoria won the castlefield award for this project, as well as having it published in two exhibitions; ‘Everyday Life’ in Georgia and ‘Abstracted’ at Meta Space Gallery in Merseyside.

Victoria is a photographer, filmmaker, artist and curator based in Hull, UK.