Robb Flick
near Philadelphia
well, I am in no way an accomplished photographer unless you consider "accomplished" as being one photo at a time. But I have logged some time in darkrooms both in Philadelphia and West Virginia and worked for 5 years as an assistant fashion and advertising photographer for Gimbels department store in Philadelphia. The Hasselblads did not impress me. The models did, especially in their "after" photos we made for ads. I mostly got to photograph shoes, handbags, Lenox china and sometimes those really sexy strippy strappy sandals ... haha ! ! All I really wanted to do at that time was go home after work, load up my Canons with some Tri-X film and go shoot. Black and White always fascinated me because I could "see" more than in a color photo which just seemed to mask what a Black and White photo "story" could tell better. The first camera I made a picture with was the pinhole camera my dad helped me make when I was 8 years, in the Cub Scouts. I have been shooting ever since. While digital cameras seem to be an evil necessity today they are like "science fiction" to me and I seem to gravitate to my now vintage Canon film cameras, and my black and white film like some strange-to-the-present comfort food. Listening to Bob Dylan in a darkroom always helped too. I bet it still does today !