To Hold a Photograph — Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith

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About Photography
Darkroom ObjectsTo Hold a Photograph
Dust from the Darkroom
Gifts from the Darkroom
The Fall of the Family Album Photography in the Fire Service
Collaboration
Coastal Visions
Social Structures
The Big Picture Show

Commercial Works

To Hold a Photograph (2026-)
Fixer and light sensitive paper

Manchester Metropolitan University

To Hold a Photograph
The visibility of touch is usually erased or avoided in darkroom practice, with procedures of wearing gloves encouraged. To Hold a Photograph responds to the latent traces of photographs through physically engaging with them. Each piece of paper is touched directly with fixer before exposing and developing, to be circulated and held over again.