Buffalo on Film showcases the artistry and vision of Buffalo film photographers, members of CEPA, and the Buffalo Film Club. This group exhibition is made entirely of black-and-white silver gelatin prints, celebrating the vibrant photo community in Buffalo, while fostering a renewed appreciation for the enduring art of film and darkroom photography.
Each photograph in the exhibition has been made by hand in the darkroom, with many of the prints brought to life at CEPA, during classes and community print nights.
In the digital landscape of contemporary photography, the nature of photographs as physical objects has been largely displaced by screens, radically and fundamentally changing the ways photographs are made, disseminated, and consumed.
The choice to deliberately take a slower and more meticulous approach to the medium underscores the photographers’ dedication to the material tradition of the photograph, celebrating the tactile and intentional nature of analog photography. With much of our daily experience of photography taking place on screens and within the commodified space of social media, modes of photography that exist outside of these spaces work to connect with the history of the medium and expand the vocabulary of contemporary photography.
To learn more about photography, film, and wet darkroom work visit: www.cepagallery.org