The Darkrooms of... Marc Wilson

The Dark Rooms of... is an interview series in which a photographer talks about his or her darkrooms, the digital and the mental, or technical and inspirational. What makes you click?

In this edition of The Dark Rooms of… we focus on British photographer Marc Wilson.

By the way, if you haven’t read the previous interviews, you can find them in the archive.

Here we go.

Who are you?

Hello.

I am Marc Wilson, a photographer working out of the UK.

I work on long term documentary projects based around memory, history and landscape, based around subjects including The Holocaust, the Second World War and the current war in Ukraine.

Over the last 15 years I have made 6 bodies of work (and published as 6 photo books) and have had numerous exhibitions both here in the UK and beyond, including Greece, India, Israel, France and Belgium. As well as books and exhibitions I also give talks about my work and see them as a natural extension of the book and exhibition formats for sharing work with a wide audience.

Technical

Do you think technique is important?

Very much but simply to allow you to show the subject you are photographing in the way you want to, without limitations. So for me the …