darkroom lab — empoli · italia
elia tofani.
I wait for the right light.
$ while I wait, the machines keep grinding
darkroom
8 projects in the archivePhoto projects, developed slowly. The good things happen in the dark.
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ET·018 Portraits 2024 Florence and around
Low-light portraits
the night lights better than people say
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ET·019 Cosplay 2024 Lucca
Lucca, the characters
cosplay up close, no stage
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ET·012 Travel 2025 thailand
Thailand, 2025
Street photography and side shoots from Thailand in 2025
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ET·006 Travel Siena - Italy
an analog day
A slow travel note in a dark analog mood.
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ET·001 Travel 2024 milano, italia
a trip in milan
Random shots in Milan
see the print
the lab log
machines runningWhat happens while the prints dry: models running locally, salvaged hardware, experiments that work at two in the morning.
- 2026-06-12 [ai] Qwen and the mini-pc: a month tagging photos at night A local LLM on a cast-off office mini-pc writes the alt text for my archive while I sleep. One month in: better than I expected, worse than I tell people.
- 2026-06-11 [ai] Qwen e il mini-pc: un mese a etichettare foto di notte Un LLM locale su un mini-pc da ufficio dismesso scrive gli alt text del mio archivio mentre dormo. Bilancio dopo un mese: meglio del previsto, peggio di quanto racconto in giro.
- 2026-06-12 [electronics] A darkroom timer in 2026 A decent darkroom timer costs thirty euros. Building one costs forty and three weekends. The choice was obvious.
03 ▸ the light is on
There's always something developing.
a portrait, a print, a question about the lab — write me.
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