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Stare into the Caffenol to Reveal Your Future: A Sustainable Vision for Analogue Photography

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Stare into the Caffenol to Reveal your Future is a blueprint for an ecological future for photography, resulting from London Alt Photo Collective's sustainable darkroom residencies. Featuring interviews from analogue photographers, the paper proposes an alternative vision for photography to be tried and tested worldwide.
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   
           
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        
  
        
        
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          
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         
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edd carr stare into the caenol
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edd carrto reveal your future
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        
         
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      
       
       
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
        
         
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       
       
         

        
   
     
       
        
       
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     
     
     
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         
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     
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      
        
      
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                
            
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                
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                  
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                
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