Hello everyone! This is my final post of 2021 and it has been a bittersweet year for me. I started this blog was to document my journey as an artist and the happenings related to art. Upon graduation, I have a dream of conducting workshops of my own and aim to make photographic arts accessible …
Author: Ratna Sutara
Second Art Exhibition of 2021
Hey everyone. Today, I want to share with you another summary of 2021. This time, it was my second participation of a group art exhibition Fluid Spaces by The Starving Artists at 67 Aliwal Street. Throughout the pandemic, there were food insecurity happening in all parts of the world and for Singapore, we highly depend …
New Year, New Roll
Hello everyone! First of all, Happy (belated) New Year! I know it has been far too long since I blogged. Christmas period has been the busiest month for me because of the crazy sales at work. Here’s a short summary of my last week of 2020 and first month of 2021. Juggling between community project …
Street Photography on 35mm
As we arrive in the month of November, we know that the end of the year is just a shy month away. It has been quite an eventful of year filled with high emotions and uncertainties of the future. However, in these tough times, we have pulled through and I believe each of us deserves …
Studio Sundays: Yen Yun Ni Odelia (Cyanotype September Special)
If you had ever wondered about the working space of an artist? Sometimes, an artist may have more than one space to work on depending on the nature of their artworks. Studio Sundays is a new bi-monthly feature to the series in Darkroom Curious where I will feature an artist and their studio space where all the …
Cyanotype September Series: History of Cyanotype
Hey everyone! It is the month of September and it’s Cyanotype Month! Why is it so? On every 26th September is World Cyanotype Day! So for this month, I’ll be featuring contents related to Cyanotype and its processes, and as well as my own practice. Want to know more about this historic photographic process? What …
Travelling With Expired Rolls
One day when I was sending my film for processing, there was a section in the photo lab store that attracted me. There were rows of small baskets that contain film canisters labelled ”Expired Films” going at a cheap price. I went home and pondered. I have a trip coming up next. After assessing the …
Lessons From My First Film Roll
When my cousin learnt about my intention in exploring analog photography four years back, she let go of her analog camera for “better use”. It was a Soviet Fed 5B rangefinder camera and bought a roll of Kodak GB 200 to go along with it. This camera became a permanent resident in my school bag …
My Photography Journey: From Casual to Artistic Expression
Photography has been a part of me since I was young. Growing up with a family culture of taking candid photos of any casual family events for memory sake, somehow that culture was ingrained to me. In 1998, I have gifted my first film compact camera and brought along it during my Student Exchange Trip …
First Blog Post
Hi all and welcome to my first blog post. Took me a while to finally have the courage to open a blog about analog photography. Yes, I am nervous now. Growing up in the era where compact film cameras were so accessible to the masses and I used to have this routine of sending my …