Mike Crawford
Mike is a London-based photographer and specialist printer working in urban landscape and portraiture. For over 25 years he has run Lighthouse Darkroom, one of the UK’s premier photographic labs, working for many leading photographers on numerous exhibitions and publications.
www.mike-crawford.co.uk, www.lighthousedarkroom.com
Photography can certainly be an expensive pastime, considering the price of top-of-the-range dequipment. Analogue photography might also appear to be a costly pursuit, given the additional expense of buying film, processing, scanning and printing, though I would perhaps argue this does not have to be so. I took up photography in the 1970s with a cheap Zenit SLR, eventually progressing to more-advanced cameras as finances allowed, but over the years I think I will have spent more money on film than equipment.
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