Cameras – in Lacock, Bristol and Kabul

Since my visit to Dimbola I’ve been thinking it’s time I got a bit more hands-on with the whole notion of early photography, or any kind of pre-digital developing and printing. I mean I once knew a novelist whose research involved learning to fly, a bit of dark room photography can’t be so hard!

W. H. Fox Talbot

Luckily the Bristol Festival of Photography has just got under way, with opportunities to see the wet collodion method andother ‘old-school’ techniques being used by contemporary artist...