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by Andrea Milia

Since I was twelve years old I have been experimenting with photography. I remember my uncle taking me to the basement of his house in Sicily. In the dank insect infested place he showed me the rudimentary tools of the craft. I later begged my parents to buy me a G.A.F. darkroom kit. I had no idea what to do with it. I first put the yellow bulb in the contact printing box and the white bulb I used as a room light. My images of course were pure black. I pursued it until I developed a proper image only to be belittled at the size of the images. (They were contact prints from 126 instamatic film.)

I remember going to the library and checking out a photography book by Andreas Feininger. The book was ancient even then. The intricacies of the art intrigued me (I'm a confessed technophile) but I couldn't possibly imagine how I could take the measure of every parameter and find the optimal settings and composition and still have it be daylight.

I don't get to work on my photography very often and just about given up on chemicals

cinema diary
Halloween 1999
sonograms
Giacomo in NICU
Giacomo September 4, 2000
March 2001
April 2001
Beach, July 2001
Giacomo Bash September 2001
October 2001
Giacomo Walking Movie, October 31, 2001
Abu Ayyash Snapshots
Christmas 2001
Winter 2002
May 2002
Jordan and Italy 2002
Jo's 40th Birthday
Jordan 2003

Much of the inspiration for and style of this page comes from Philip Greenspun 's work and his site: photo.net .
If you would like to use any of these images email me.

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