Garry Fabian Miller: Dark Room

A memoir of Garry Fabian Miller's photography over the last fifty years, detailing the artist’s personal account of making pictures between the dark and the light.

Dark Room charts the development of Fabian Miller’s practice, shifting away from the camera-based photography of his early career, to the abstract 'camera-less' method of picture making in a dark room for which he has become internationally recognized.

Garry Fabian Miller is widely known as one of the last darkroom photographers, having worked in this way without a camera since the mid-1980s. Taking light as his medium and subject, Fabian Miller shines light through coloured glass vessels and cut stencils to produce vibrant compositions, recorded directly onto photographic paper. As the materials and resources neccessary for this practice dwindle, Fabian Miller reflects on the role of the dark room in the history of photography, from the moment of its birth in the 1830s to its decline in the digital age, almost two hundred years later.

Dark Room features an essay by the potter and writer, and friend of Fabian Miller's, Edmund de Waal, and technical notes by Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum.