Mr Alex Falk
A story behind portrait of Mr Alex Falk
Slawek Dejneka
9/5/20241 min read
The Story of one picture
On the picture is Mr Alex Falk, the owner of MrCad photographic store in London.
Mr Alex is a special person. He is very energetic and knowledgeable person about all aspects of photographic equipment. He has been running this store for God knows how long.
If you're looking to purchase any type of photographic lens, body, darkroom equipment or a unique other type of anything that is unavailable literally anywhere else, this is the place to go! And all in an affordable prices!
A few years ago I was running a project about existing analogue stores and darkroom master printers in London. This is a long project and it is not finished yet. One day I went to Mr Falk's store not to purchase something, but to speak to Mr Alex and ask if I could take a portrait of him.
I'm glad that he has agreed to this idea, and we have met two weeks later in his store. I brought my Hasselblad and a few rolls of HP5 film. All pictures that day were taken in the existing light with no external light sources. It was not an easy task to take a good shot as 400 ASA is not a lot to play with.