My daughter's first Photogram

This weekend I finally had the chance to set up my darkroom again and invite my 4 year old daughter in to experience some photographic magic for the first time.

 

I started with the easiest thing I could think of - photograms. Where you place objects on top of photo paper, expose it to light and develop it. I asked my daughter to bring down some of her favorite toys and we'd try them out. She brought down a flower necklace, a wooden fish and butterfly clip.

 

We did about over a half dozen photograms trying different things. This was my favorite with her hand in it. She was great in the darkroom, she didn't get near the chemicals and i held her up to see the print magically appearing in the developer.

 

She took the photograms to kindergarten for show and tell yesterday along with a picture of our darkroom.

 

I've been waiting a long time to be able to show her the darkroom and i'm looking forward to shooting some b/w pictures with her and helping her develop them over the coming years.

 

Someday the darkroom will be hers. I hope we'll still be able to get supplies for it in a decade or two..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Done