Diane ArbusNeil Selkirk & Sophie Hackett

In connection with the Art Gallery of Ontario’s exhibition Diane Arbus: Photographs 1956 – 1971, AGO curator of photography Sophie Hackett speaks with British photographer Neil Selkirk about his experience printing Arbus’s negatives after her death in 1971. Selkirk describes the process of sorting through 7,000 rolls of film, and working in Arbus’s darkroom to piece together the technical aspects of her approach to making prints. 

Watch the interview, from 2020, here.