Author: Marc Upson

Marc Upson

1965: started life in the US of A. 1970: imported in France. 1983: started professional life playing bass in a band. 1987: started working in an architecture office. 1993: started working in a small professional photographic laboratory. 1997: started my own color printing lab. 2010: moved my whole life into one space, created a recording studio. Until now…

16-minute snapshots of life: Making Huge Full-roll darkroom proof sheets for my friends

Mar 3, 2021

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Marc Upson

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I started taking pictures in Berkeley, CA. during the summer of 1980, with a Nikomat FT2 and a 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor given by my father (I still have both). He had the habit of systematically buying a few fresh rolls for every shoot (mostly birds and reptiles) so, when I stayed with him, there was a…