About Photo Spectrum…
“Why the fuck did I make a darkroom?
No, seriously. Why?”
-Wu Chi Long
My name is Wu Chi Long, a Music major graduate, and I started Photo Spectrum. This is a one-man darkroom fueled solely by my passion, and frankly, stubbornness, for analogue photography.
If your parents ever asked you: “What’s the difference between shooting film and digital if you’re getting your photos scanned digitally?”, you are one step closer to making a darkroom as I have. The only difference is, that your rational mind which is well-adjusted to society would’ve stopped at the thought and pursued something more pragmatic.
What separates Photo Spectrum from other film labs in Hong Kong is my goal of making photography fully analogue. Here, your end results are (hopefully) tangible chromogenic prints, mounted on a frame and hung up.
What I, Photo Spectrum want from you.
On a more serious note, this darkroom was created surrounding one core philosophy — The gift of photography. Between those of us who record the mundaneness of life to those who photograph professionally, there is inherent value and uniqueness to the craft that we all call photography. Our ability to capture moments, ideas, emotions, and much more is a powerful gift more valuable than most might think.
One of Photo Spectrum’s goals is to create avenues for photographers to gift their craft. One that is more than just a digital file. One that creates a piece of art, or a fragment of a memory in the form of a tangible photograph, a print. Which, hopefully through some abstract form of ‘humanity' evolves into something substantial and meaningful in itself. Something that may evoke more than what words can ever express.
Through this darkroom, I desire nothing more than for you, the photographer, to create, and to gift your craft to those around you.
