JOHN SPINKS – THE SHOT I NEVER FORGOT
My interest in photography started at secondary school.There was a cleaners cupboard that had been converted into a darkroom, a darkroom that didn’t work.There was no paper and the chemicals were rotten, years out of date.The wonderful thing about this place however was that it meant that I could hide, that I could spend an hour every day, in those last few months of school away from everyone else.without the least exaggeration, that tiny room was my salvation.Because of this when I started at the local technical college the following September I opted to do a photography course.This picture is one of the enlargers I used in those first few months of learning all about photography.I made this picture around eight or nine years ago, I went back to the technical college, back to that darkroom just before they tore it down.i spent countless hours in that room, it was the place where I started becoming me.