Ray Otter

Ray Otter

When I was 16 years old, my father drove me to a local hardware store for my birthday. He bought a wooden shed, well, wood and materials to build a wooden shed. Once we have finished building the shed we ran electrical lines and water to the shed. In another storage shed my father had, he stored some older developement equipment. We set it all up in my new birthday shed present, a dark room. For the following years, I had full control over creative experiments with chemicals and light. I was fascinated with the physics and the chemical to paper reaction. For many nights I spent hours in that shed with my photos, as I got older that shed became sort of a party shed into my late teens. But by my twenties, the digital age had erupted. My first digital was a Sony Mavica, it stored photos on a 3.5 diskette. It is twenties years later and hundreds of thousands of photos later, the technology and the fast moving pace of the internet has reshaped my hobby I adopted as a 16 year old kid. Please enjoy my photo library.