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oy Cullen's letter ( , 6 July) about his hero and guru in photography bears striking similarities to my introduction to photography in the mid 1950s at my secondary school. The photography club, which was run by our deputy head, was held on Thursday evenings at my school in south Essex. The darkroom consisted of two large lightproof wooden panels fixed onto the outside of the office windows which worked most of the time, but occasionally fell down just when all the bromide paper was exposed; however, despite various mishaps I really took to what