ABOUT US

The Darkroom Social is a newly founded project by Isobel Markus-Dunworth and Remi Siciliano with the aim of creating a community of alternative photographic practitioners with an interest in material experimentation, collaboration and environmentally conscious practice. 

Isobel Markus-Dunworth is a photographer, artist and educator. After teaching analogue photography for over a decade at the University of Sydney, her current research investigates how historical photographic processes can be delivered with a reframing of sustainability and environmental ethics.

Remi Siciliano is a Sydney-based photomedia artist exploring the potential to collaborate with other organisms and ecologies to make images. Remi investigates how the material and receptive nature of analogue photography can lend itself to collaborative experiments and encounters.

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We are giving away 4x double tickets to a event on Sunday 21st July. Winners will each bring along a friend, and together you will share a new Pentax 17 point and shoot camera and collaborate shooting a roll of black and white film as we go on a coas
HP5+ processed in waste from the beer brewing process @futurebrewingsyd 🌷🍻 these images were shot on the new Pentax 17 half frame camera that we've been testing thanks to @c.r.kennedyimaging 📸
Some tests of a new developer made from Lantana weeds that we collected during our residency @gunyahartists 🌱 This was an old (almost forgotten!) roll from some outdoor caffenol processing that we did at the start of the year. HP5+ processed in Lan
We have a very exciting announcement! We will be running a workshop in collaboration with @manlyspirits next month, using some ingredients and waste products from the gin distillation process to develop negatives! 🎞️ We are running this as a part of
Foraging for seaweed @gunyahartists the other week! We left a big tub of it extracting that we will use for printing & processing when we go back for the 2nd week of our residency next month. These images are TMAX 400 developed in caffenol 🎞️
@thedarkroom.social x @gunyahartists residency day #3 ☀️ We spent the morning processing 4x5 paper negatives on the jetty, went for a bushwalk and made friends with some locals while out foraging for seaweed 🐶🪸🌱
@thedarkroom.social x @gunyahartists residency day #2 🌊🪸 we had a great day taking the 4x5 camera out to Dark Point, photographing and exploring the amazing site. Almost lost the camera to the ocean but thankfully we all made it out okay 😬😅
What's going on here? 😳👀 It's a hops developer that @isobel_studiosabii made using spent hops from the brewing process @futurebrewingsyd 💚 smells delicious and makes for some beautifully processed negatives! Swipe for a detail of one of the scans