https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/19/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs-in-colour-i-2/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/19/david-hoffman-at-st-botolphs-in-colour-i-2/#comment-1650199 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:20:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201489#comment-1650199 A wonderful glorious set of photographs indeed especially that first one there top of the page.
“In those days, I was keen to show off my technical skills and didn’t really like the effect – so I quickly gave up using colour and returned to black and white. But, looking back at these pictures now, I wonder what I was thinking. I find the colour shifts and graininess quite gorgeous and I regret not taking the idea further.”
My father used to ‘hand colour’ black and white photos for a while back in the day – the early ’50s!
I have just two of them which in my mind is as equal a disappointment as David might well feel upon his reflection given that to have such an archive from that age today would be a seventh heaven.

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