The end of Ivey, film processing, resources for local (analog) photographers
I heard the other day that Ivey Photo is going out of business today, June 30th. What a shame! They’ve always treated me well as a customer; answering my questions, and being helpful. I’ve been a smallish user of film development through them, and a non-user of their other services (quality printing).
But then I heard last week that they were going out of business, as seen in the Seattle-PI.
So today I stopped in and I thanked them for all the great work they’d done for me; for the help that they’d provided me in being an artist, and doing my art. Jesse, whose last day is today, thanked me for what I’d said. He gave me some resources for other local film development.
I got into photography a long while ago, and I only got good at it when I stopped, slowed down, and used film. I think it was because the process had a lot more labor behind it for me — that for everything I did I had to be sure about my choices because I couldn’t simply correct them on the fly and recover there. I had to know that I was composing things well, and had to commit to the choice of firing the shutter.
I’m writing this post to both promote the local analog photography community, and to bring attention to the existance of the community. Here are some local resources for doing film photography around Seattle:
Film Processing
- Moonphoto
7704 Greenwood Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98103
206-783-3377
moonphotolab.com
35mm and 120 B&W, C-41, and E-6 film processing, and scanning, darkroom printing, exhibition grade fiber prints, copying of negatives. Pricing is roughly $8.50/roll for development, less if other services are combined with it.
- Panda Photographic Lab
533 Warren Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98109
206-285-7091
www.pandalab.com
C-41, E-6, B&W film development, exhibition grade prints, B&W darkroom prints, digital prints, optical color prints, other services.
- Film Stop
508 3rd Ave W
Seattle, WA 98119
Scanning / Digital
- Cosgrove Editions
Dick Busher
206-524-6726
Tango Drum Scans, Inkjet prints on archival rag stock, giclee)
Printing / Mounting
- Wallingford photo center
1815 n 45th st
suite 104
seattle, wa 98103
206-545-4521
- Dos Rhinos (Giclee printing)
31004 28th ave S
Federal Way, WA 98003
253-941-3094
- Color One (Mounting / Finishing)
Carl Bebe
411 2nd ave south
seattle, wa 98104
206-622-7107
I’m going to miss Ivey being around. Their services were awesome, and it’s a blow to the community for them to be gone. I hope this list proves useful.
