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To Convey In The Print The Feeling You Experienced When You Exposed Your Film – To Walk Out Of The Darkroom And Say: ‘this Is It, The Equivalent Of What I Saw And Felt!’. That’s What It’s All About.

-John Sexton

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To Convey In The Print The Feeling

John Sexton

To Convey In The Print The Feeling You Experienced When You Exposed Your Film – To Walk Out Of The Darkroom And Say: ‘this Is It, The Equivalent Of What I Saw And Felt!’. That’s What It’s All About.

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