Who is Victor Sloan?

Dungannon photographer Victor Sloan was born in 1945.

He works as a photography teacher but also creates his own work.

Printing a photograph

When you are printing out a digital photograph at home or in school, you can do it directly from your phone or computer onto photo paper using a printer.

But traditional cameras used film.

This film was made from a unique type of material that would record the images, as light passed into the camera.

After taking a photo, a photographer would take this film out of the camera to treat it with chemicals and develop it.

This process happened in a dark room. These rooms were almost completely dark, apart from a red light, as normal light could destroy the image as it was printed on special paper.

Victor was particularly interested in this processing side of photography.

He even made his own dark room in the little cupboard room under his stairs at home!

Drawing on photos

Victor is well known for his photography style, and his photos of real life in Northern Ireland.

Rather than simply printing out a photograph, he likes to change it by drawing, painting, marking and scoring both the film and the final print.

This is Victor's artwork called Holding the Rope.

You can see the lines and mark he has added during the printing of the picture.

Time for a close up