ROCK ‘n’ ROLL
Q&
A
DYLAN’S ILFORD
COMEBACK
MARIE MEARS
FOTOFINISH
1978 PHOTOS PASS TEST OF TIME
CHARD, SOMERSET
.
Q10) What
was your fi r
st job?
Bob Dylan has made another ages had
Q1) How long have you W
orking in a cake shop (the critically acclaimed comeback, been pre-
worked in retail? cakes were delicious!). although this time it is his image served. It
26 years rather than his music that is was as if
Q11) What has been the causing the excitement. Pictures I shot the
Q2) How has business best way of attracting of Dylan in concert taken using show yesterday!”
changed over the last six customers into the shop?
Ilford HP5 black and white fi lm “I have used various digital stor-
months? Helpful staff offering a personal have only now been developed age, from fl oppy disks to fl ash
We have changed from the old ser
vice which the larger high after gathering dust for over three drives, since 1982 and a hard
wet lab to a new Fuji Dr
ylab street stores don’t.
decades. drive would never have lasted
giving a greater range and better Unlike Dylan, now 68, the that long. The fact these pictures
quality products. Q12) What’
s next for your
photographs show no apparent survived in the condition that they
shop? signs of ageing and provide a did is testament to the quality
Q3) Ever ser
ved anyone To build on our customer
base and
crystal clear view of Dylan on and longevity of silver halide
famous? (if so, who?) to continue to move for
ward.
stage during the 1978 perform- photography. As I tell my fellow
Taken Hugh Fear
nley ance. For the photographer, photographers: try that with a
Whittingstall’s Passpor
t Photo. Q13) Funniest/most
Mark Estabrook, the fact that the hard drive.”
embarrassing moment in pictures survived demonstrates Marketing Director, Steven
Q4) What’s your favourite store?
the archival properties of tradi- Brierley believes that fi nds like the
thing about Pixel?
When a customer borrowed a
tional photography compared Dylan pictures are helping ana-
Brings us all the up to date news friend’
s camera not knowing with digital fi les: logue photography experience a
in the photographic world. what she had already taken “The fi lm lay dormant and unde- comeback of its own:
then opening ever
ything up on
veloped at various room tempera- “Images like these demonstrate
Q5) What is your preferred the kiosk! (she was defi
nitely
tures until I discovered them when the impact black and white
product to sell and why?
embarrassed!). moving house recently,” He said. pictures have to a new generation
Canvas prints, great markup. “I asked Ilford Photo’s technical of photographers, as well as their
Q14) What
’s the highes
t
team how to develop the fi lm and capacity to last.There is a ro-
Q6) How do you pr
omote value sale you’ve eve
r made?
when I came out of the darkroom mance and a verve to darkroom
your business? £500 wor
th of canvases.
I was amazed how well the im- photography.”
Word of mouth. Local freebie
Magazine. Q15) If you could be Pixel
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editor for a day
, what
Q7) What aspects of your would you do?
BACK, AND LIVE ONLINE!
job do you enjoy the most?
Give everybody the day off
The closed sign! including myself. The forums at
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are steadily welcoming back old conversations. Make sure you’re
Q8) What was the best Q16) What was your New familiars and saying hello to new involved where you want to be!
selling product in store over Y
ear’s resolution and have names. There are now forums for
www.pixellive.co.uk - we’re
the Xmas period? you br
oken it yet?
introductions, chat and the now waiting.
Canvas Prints. Not to make any
, and no I have
ubiquitous social networking as
not broken it yet! well as forums for all the trade
Q9) Favourite pr
oduct in
gossip and news you could wish
your shop?
Q17) Finally
, what is the
for.
Canvas prints, good markup and best joke you know? All that’s missing is you! Sign up,
easy to sell. What do you call a man in a pile introduce yourself and get in a
of leaves?
Russell!
the beginning, as forums take off
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