There are so many talented silver gelatin printers in the world and we are thrilled to be able to showcase just a few of these Master Printers in this 3rd video in our ILFORD Inspires New York Silver Stories series. A huge thank you as usual to the talented team @exploredinary for filming and editing and also to Digital Silver Imaging, Griffin Editions and Laumont Editions for letting us in to see and film the tremendous amount of work that goes on behind the scenes.

This is the dark room taken to a totally new level. I can only love and respect the early photographers which did it all in their own humble darkroom.

Twenty five minutes watching your wonderful video, followed by seven hours in the darkroom. Pretty much a perfect evening, thank you @ILFORDPHOTO, @Exploredinary and all of the labs, printers and photographers involved. Inspiration and motivation are always so appreciated!

We hope you enjoy this rare look into The World of Master Printers! It was so much fun to meet and film with all of these talented individuals who have dedicated their lives to photography.

Made a lifetime of printing photographs for myself and other photographers ! Never quit ! Always something new and unexpected !

This was a fantastic project and we were thrilled to be invited to participate. This is our passion; it's what we do best. Thanks to Marcelle @morrisonhotelgallery for her support and well.

Thank you Ilford for providing us the supplies and the knowledge to keep discovering that magic over and over again.

"The Puzzle of the Print" sums it up completely in this fabulous video!

Ilford definitely inspires - thanks for showcasing

I'm happy to see the continuation of this beautiful art service! Just this week, it broke my heart to heart that another great lab back in Denver, Reed Photo Imaging, closed their doors after many decades of producing amazing processing and printing for the photographic community. They were one of the leaders in the photographic world and will be greatly missed!

Wow, Excelente!!!!! Gracias.

Real photography, true masters of the art from capture to print. So inspiring. Thank you.

it's been a long, long time since i smelled "the stop", sadly... i remember times, printing in the darkroom, working to get a print to "say" what was wanted, only to glance at a clock...ohm it's 3:30 ! wonderful to see these dedicated 'craftsmen', who, indeed, bring artistry to their work, a synergy with the photographer that is truly part of the final artwork! thanks for sharing the voices and passion of these "back room" artists!

Great film, thank you! It made me miss my commercial photo lab days, altho I still print in my home darkroom.

Every single second of this video made me happy. Thank you.

This is really something. Thank you very much. "A print is always a puzzle", this is so true and something I was never thinking.

I love that Joan Jett picture on the wall!!! Made the cover for I love Rock n' Roll back in 1982 when I was -15

Brilliant! Thank you for keeping the dream alive. Can't wait for the next film!

I just love these video presentations, better than any TV content here in NEW ZEALAND. My eyes lit up when I saw the darkroom revolving door at 18.19 just like the one I bought for $16.00 which makes loading films for darkroom work a breeze .

What a wonderful video and look at the world of master printers

Amazing pictures, great ILFORD products are so highly regarded. I started using ILFORD plates, film and paper in 1962 and I live in ILFORD!

Absolutely awesome ! Winter is approaching. Time for me to start printing in my home darkroom. This is just what I need to get me all fired up !!

I really enjoyed this 🙂 Its given me motivation 🙂Thank you x

i‘m totally speechless. i need to learn this!

Great video! Thank you!

Thank you love to be inspired by great work

Beautiful video. I have been working on fourteen 16x12 prints in the darkroom for the past four days, went through two boxes of 50 sheets of paper. This has inspired me to keep going, only three more prints to go.

thanks to Ilford/Harmon and the Explordinary crew. A job well done. I'm not sure if NYC is the centre of the photography world considering Tokyo, London, Paris, Berlin, Mexico City, Sao Paulo but no doubt NYC is an important place in the world of photography. The printers were a treat to watch and hear. I might add a question for clarification.. at the 22.54 mark an Agfa Gaevertz 120 format folder camera is shown as a 135 film camera used by Benjamin Pelaez. You might want to find the appropriate camera and 'adjust accordingly'. A small but niggling point for those of us who are long time film photographers. This documentary is a wonderful effort and video. Thanks and continued success

other people go to New York for museums, I'm jus gonna visit all these printing studios xD

Perfect. Just...perfect!

All of these talented people are confident and personable. Simply a video that reminds us of the sheer beauty and incredible impressive power of large prints. I’ve only had a few large prints made. I gave one of a Cheetah to a 9 year old relative. Felt great to see his eyes light up.

Incredible!

I love this series. These videos are a joy to watch.

Awesome story! This is the right way.

Its always more pure, more beautiful, more perfect when the photographer does his own printing to complete his vision, mono.

to all of you at ILFORD you are amazing, wow what an awesome video

great video!👏👏

Wow! What a great story! People doing what they love. So inspiring. Time for me to dust of my enlarger again! Thank you Ilford, these just keep getting better and better!!

Excellent homage to the printers and photogs of New York. I would like to add two printers I knew and worked with at Irwin Welcher's b&w lab, General Graphics, in San Francisco, CA. Eddy Dyba was the master printer and muralist at GG, and he printed the negs of Dorothea Lange, Morley Baer, and others. Kirk Anspach worked at GG as well. He printed Bill Owens' negs among others and eventually became personal printer for the photographer Jim Marshall. Eddy Dyba and Jim Marshall are no longer alive, and I expect that Kirk Anspach is still alive though I haven't seen him for many years. I just felt that they deserve the recognition regardless.

Well, I'm going right to my darkroom now! Ilford, PLEASE, don't kill Ilfobrom Galerie! Thanks!

More videos like this please! Enlightening!

Very good video to my friends at Ilford! While I spent more than 20 years as a portrait/wedding photographer I did a little B&W fine art photography. This was my big bonus to me for being a photographer!

Bravo! Thanks.

Some of us old timers are still around… not so fast, we made our photographs and printed them too!

If you are interested in photography, this is a must watch.

@exploredinary this is wonderful! Loved every part of it!

I am a user of ilford products here in ARGENTINA the video is very very interesting Thanks ILFORD to do it

Ottimo lavoro Ilford👍👍👍👍👍

Fantastic Film! Just outstanding.

Wonderful insight into the world of high-end photographic printing. Thank you for making this kind of documentary, it's very heartwarming to know that this kind of artistry is still happening.

We love you Ilford! Thank you so much for what you guys do!

That was one of the best videos I’ve seen ever on KZfaq

Wonderful inspiring video! Thank you.

The murial prints wow the attention to detail is unbelievable. Liked the guy with the bullfight images interpretation of what it was like to print this for the first time. A lovely memory 👌

fabulous insight to the printers art, i remember a long time ago being very impressed with Gene Nocon at one of his workshops in the early eighties, so inspiring, sadly no longer with us.... thank you Ilford and Harman for keeping the faith....

Thank you! Great video!

Excellent video.Bravo!!!!!

Great film, more please!

Love this! Thank you Ilford 😃

Excellent video, inspirational.

Fantastic and inspiring film. Thank you! 🙏🏾

I used to do this in San Francisco, and developed printing techniques that took advantage of Ilford multigrade technology, using several contrast grades on the same print. I got pretty good at it, and fooled the boss at General Graphics by challenging him to differentiate between a single-weight glossy print and an RC glossy print. He couldn't tell the difference so we stopped wasting time with the ferrotype drum. Then I saw the writing on the wall, and got a degree in electronics, and left the business, got a job in television. Too bad. Now I see that good-old-fashioned black and white gelatin-silver printing is as strong as ever, but I could never live in a city again.

Thank you very much for this beautiful video!!!!!

dream job.....especially having access to ultra large printing on your off hours

Amazing production!

Excellent, excellent video. Loved the interviews, the visuals and the topic. I have so many good memories of the darkroom in my high school and college photography classes in the early 90's. This video brought back some of those good memories and really showed how far some masters have been able to take the art and craft of printing. Really eye opening!

Love this feature! Learned a lot from this video while having the pleasure of enjoying beautiful imagery! Great stuff Ilford

Thank you for sharing. It is an amazing video.

What a wonderful video! As a complete beginner in darkroom printing this is very inspiring.

The art of printing

Superb! Very inspiring. Kudos to Ilford for this production.

Fantastic artists! Thank you.

What lovely work and to meet the people behind this craft, to hear their stories is a revelation. Please keep this series going...inspirational.

What a dying art. Lions envisioned maybe one day owning a darkroom & processing film at home, in 1993. By 1995, photoshop 3 was the beginning of the end.

Wonderful. Do more 😊

Wonderful. Thank you!

I'm going to work with these men one day. I love exposing and developing, but printing my own stuff brings me a joy I can't describe.

Loved it!! Great work everyone, greetings from Greece!!

These stories are fantastic, thank you Ilford and exploredinary for creating this series. Cheers Andrew in Ottawa Canada 🇨🇦

I loved this behind the scenes video, this was exceptional.

So badass!

Excellent video! Printing is such an art itself, it’s kind of daunting to go down that road. Great look at the people involved in that part of the process, and see their involvement in producing some amazing pieces of art.

Beautiful and very inspiring !

Very cool and inspirational!

that was sooo amazing.. feel so inspired

Makes me wanna go 35mm or 120 roll film again!

Woooww! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Superb

Thanks for this inspiring documental. I would love to see one of my pictures in the hands of these masters …

I fancied myself a master printer printing 8x10 and the occasional 12x16 in my room but i guess not after watching this😢🤣

Looked. I'm going to print 🧐

Awesome :)

I miss Cibachrome material availability so much!

awesome

As I see it, most people don't have the patience to be in a darkroom. But there's something about a well made black and white photograph. Now for those reading this and are just begining, you do not expose the sheet of paper under the enlarger for let's say 10 seconds, then put it in the tray of developer, and when the image looks good take it out.....then into the stop bath and fixer or hypo as it's also called. That's the basic steps.Why you may ask? Because you can not make an accurate judgement when the paper is in the solution and under the safe light. So you make what is called test strips. Take one sheet of paper, cut it into one inch strips eight inches long and save them. This must be done under the safe light Every photographer does things differently. You don't need the entire picture, just a portion with a light, dark and middle tone. If you're going to make an 8 X 10, then the enlarger MUST be raised up to 8 X 10 or whatever you're going to print on the sheet of paper. There's a special red filter you place under the enlarger to know where to place the test strip without getting exposed. Then turn off the enlarger, remove the red filter, and expose the strip for 5 seconds. Do two more for 10 and 20 seconds. Then take all three test strips and develop them for 1 or 2 minutes. 10 seconds before the time is up, remove the test strips and shake off the excess developer. You must do the same with the full sheet of paper. Then into the stop bath and the fixer. You don't need to fix the test strips for the entire length of time, just enough so the paper won't darken. 5 seconds is way too light, 10 sec. looks good, but the light tones seem too light. With the 20 sec. strip, the dark tones look too dark. So you make a 15 sec. exposure. That is you expose a sheet of paper for 15 sec. under the enlarger, then develop it for 1 or 2 min. and remember, remove the paper 10 sec. before the time is up to remove the excess developer. That's what you did with the test strips. Then into the stop and fix for the proper length of time and so on. Contrast is another thing that must be adjusted. You can use different packs of paper with different contrast grades, or what I like to use is poly or malty contrast paper. All you need is one pack of paper and you place different grade filters under the enlarger to adjust the contrast.

Someone should do a youtube video at some point on the 'printers printer', the studio where the printers go to have their own photographic work printed. An assistant friend said it's near the Williamsburg bridge but i've never been, it seems pretty secretive. He said they charge something insane like two grand for a single 11x14 print, and they use printing systems they invented themselves. I won't be going there anytime soon but we are all curious, wink wink youtube creators...

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I see that all of the prints have wide borders. is that the normal process?

Does anybody know the piano song playing during the 11:30 mark onwards.