About

Kerik is at a major inflection point in his life. After 30 years in Placerville and 21 years in the same home darkroom, he is picking up roots and moving from the foothills of the Sierras to the central California coast. This means he will be dismantling his darkroom lovingly used for two decades and rebuilding it. A photographer’s darkroom is a haven for creating. Once you are familiar with your darkroom, the mechanical aspects are like ‘muscle memory’, this familiarity leading to more cognitive space for creativity in printing. As Ansel Adams once said “The negative is comparable to the …