raf wyton | photograping the photography | then and now
18|05|02 & 18|10|07

Yes, it was that sort of Photographic Club. Anyway, it’s been left there for the enjoyment of other explorers.

This part of the building featured another set of three darkrooms. They were certainly cranking a lot of film out here.



2008: She was still there and this wider shot shows the entire anti-room before entering the tiny corridor with several individual development rooms. I remember being extremely spooked in this room. I was all alone, in the pitch dark, trying to compose this shot, when something fluttered against my ear. In panic, I recoiled back and shone the torch on... a butterfly. It appeared to be hibernating attached to the wall and my lighting had disturbed it.