The Sustainable Darkroom: My Work Here is Done

My Work Here is Done features new works by Hannah Fletcher, Edd Carr and Alice Cazenave from the Sustainable Darkroom - the world’s first charitable organization dedicated to the development of ecologically-minded methods in photography.

The exhibition deconstructs common materials in photography and their environmental, social, and political impacts. It unveils hidden violences embedded in photographic materials and chemistries, and questions their legacies in the face of contemporary crisis. Through this material breakdown, we can hope to envision a regenerative future for photographic materials, where toxicity and routine violence are not accepted as inherent, but questioned and reformed.

The title of the exhibition paraphrases the suicide note of George Eastman (founder of Kodak), reading, ‘To my friends, my work is done – why wait?’. But in an era of ecological crisis, photography’s material impact is being re-examined. With the work very much not done, the exhibiting artists are working at the forefront of low-toxic methods to reform and reshape Eastman’s legacy in view of a sustainable future.