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
