Looking for whales

Wade Hughes & Robyn Hughes · Issue 99, Nov/Dec 2017 · pp. 57–63

Products mentioned: Ilford Galerie Prestige 310gsm Cotton Rag Paper, Cibachrome, Kodacolour

At one point, Robyn and I were thinking that the next creative project we would embark on may well be writing a book titled “Really? You’re thinking of mounting a photographic exhibition?” It really is a journey from an idea that flows casually out of a Friday evening bottle of red wine to a gallery wall speckled with a rash of red dots! But, now, at the time of writing half way through our week-long exhibition, would we do it all again? Absolutely. At this point, we’re enjoying strong sales. But the value of this exhibition, for us, goes far beyond whatever the eventual commercial outcome might be. Right from the outset, we were not setting out on a commercial enterprise: there were other, more compelling reasons for mounting this exhibition. We’ll touch on those below, but nevertheless, we worked as prudently and frugally as we could in order to contain costs as much as possible. But t…