“Our Shadows Are Long” is a joint exhibition between two community darkrooms: Fotohane in Turkey and Contact Darkroom in Totnes.
The show brings together images made by Fotohane’s students in Mardin, taken as part of their workshops with young people during which particapants are encouraged to play and experiment freely. Alongside this work, they are showing photographs captured as part of a visit by Contact, along with a few extracts from a film about Fotohane and Mardin.
Their collaboration grew from a shared passion for photography and darkroom culture, and its power to move and empower people of all ages, especially young people. Serbest, one of Fotohane’s founders, is a Syrian refugee who began running workshops to help connect young refugees to the world around them.
