Archive — 001
Cold storage · 2015—2026
Everything that did not get printed is still here.
Filed by date, catalogued by sheet and frame, kept at twelve degrees. Nothing is deleted, because the frame you were sure about on the day is almost never the one you want four years later.
Held
Eleven years · roughly forty thousand frames
Shown
Under three hundred of them, ever
Conditions
Twelve degrees, low humidity, no light at all
Cold storage — 002
One sheet per year, opened rarely
Square
—
2018
· sheet
04
, frames
11—18
Wash
—
2019
· sheet
09
, frames
02—07
Fold
—
2020
· sheet
14
, frames
21—26
Field
—
2021
· sheet
22
, frames
30—36
Weave
—
2022
· sheet
31
, frames
05—12
Wall
—
2023
· sheet
40
, frames
14—19
Access — 003
Ask, and say why
The archive is not a shop.
Researchers, editors and the people in the photographs can ask to see a sheet. Nothing in cold storage is licensed as stock, and nothing is printed from it without the negative being pulled by hand first.
Who can ask
Editors, researchers, and anyone who is in a frame
What it costs
Nothing to look. £320 if it becomes a print
What is refused
Stock licensing, training data, and anything unattributed
Next — 004
Name a year, or a face
Ask about a sheet
Tell me roughly when and roughly where, and I will pull the sheets that match and send you a scan of the strip.
