theaustralian.com.au – Sharon Verghis From: The Australian
In a tiny darkroom off bustling Crown Street, in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Billy Maynard hovers over a row of prints bathing in trays of developing fluid.
Heavy blackout curtains enclose the narrow space and the air is acrid with a chemical stink. It’s an old-fashioned scene in this digital age, but 19-year-old Maynard — skateboarder, chef and emerging photographer — is an acolyte of the old ways. He pulls a safelight cord and a fine-boned, pale face swims out of the reddish murk. He looks around the space, lent to him by Sydney photographer Patrick Jones. “Yeah, it’s pretty good. I have it all to myself.”