Photo Lab

The photograph as an object, 1860 to now: the print at the size the year sold it, with its border, its back and the lab’s stamp; the instant print; the booth strip; the passport sheet; the contact sheet; the chemist’s D&P wallet. The picture is your own — read on this machine, sent nowhere — or an illustrated stand-in, never a generated face. Part of Chronotype · Free to use. Licence for paid productions · the research behind it

Year & country

The object — what the scene needs

Print at 100% / actual size, margins none. The lab, the numbers and the film are invented; the picture is yours or a stand-in — see the Checks panel for what dates it.