Shot on film.
Printed by hand.
Developed before your eyes.

Grain & Silver is a two-person studio in Glasgow: editorial, landscape and portrait work on 35mm and medium format, printed in our own darkroom. Scroll — every frame below develops the way our prints do.

Portra · Velvia · Hasselblad 500C/M · est. 2011

Selected frames

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The studio

Digital when it serves.
Silver when it matters.

We're not precious about it — commercial jobs ship as files, on deadline, retouched properly. But the work we're known for goes through the wet room: fibre paper, dektol, a red bulb and patience. Prints outlive hard drives.

The safelight switch in the corner isn't a gimmick. It's how the studio actually looks at 11pm — try it while you browse.

Editorial & portraitcommissions · worldwide
Darkroom printseditioned · fibre-based · signed
The wet roomhire + tuition, Thursdays

Commission the pair of us.

One brief, two photographers, film and digital side by side. Editorial day rates on request; print editions from £180.

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