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It is an absolute pleasure to share the news that my article ✨‘The Garret Photographic Studio’ How the Home Darkroom Facilitated Everyday Queer Image Making ✨is now live on the Eidolon Journal website!

This essay is published in conjunction with Eidolon Club Vol. 12: The People's Pictures which was an afternoon of talks on vernacular photography held on 27 March 2026 at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, organised by Eidolon Centre and Photoworks_UK in collaboration with the University of Westminster. Alongside the event, a call for papers was extended to university students, with selected work to be considered for publication in Eidolon Journal. My essay on the Reg and George Collection held at Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, was the selected contribution! ❤️

In the article, I discuss one of the case studies I have been focusing on as part of my PhD research. The Reg and George Collection is so rich with photographic material of which I have barely scratched the surface! Reg and George were a gay couple who ran B&B buisnesses in Wales from the early 1970s but prior to this they lived in Bournemouth where George worked as a professional photographer. His first itteration of the business - the Garret Photographic Studio - was a domestic/studio/darkroom space. In the article I discuss how the queered photographic domestic space facilitated image making during the criminalisation of homosexuality and the obscene publications act.

It has been such a pleasure to work with the Eidolon team and getting to write about queer photographic history 🥰 

‘The Garret Photographic Studio’. How the Home Darkroom Facilitated Everyday Queer Image Making
Molly Caenwyn
See: https://everydayphotography.org/journal/the-garret-photographic-studio

Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual?  Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or in spaces that feel like home to you?  If so, then this project is for you!  I wish to speak to people who have experience of one or multiple of the following as part of my PhD research:

• Have you ever made or owned a home darkroom, permanent or semi-permanent, in Britan?

• Do you work with analogue and/or alternative photographic processes at home?

• Do you have memories of home darkrooms? Has this influenced your photography?

• Do you have experience of setting up or running a home or community darkroom?

• Have you been part of a community darkroom that felt like home?

If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch by:
Email: m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
m: 07902489831

Leaflet version of the above text can be found here