Author thomas-dayer-et-nicolas-brodard

March 2014. Four months had passed since the courts had ordered the closure of Ilford Imaging. However, that Friday, many of them still came for a drink at the “recreational…

The photo world thought Ilford was dead and buried—they were wrong. While the former site of the company is being turned into the Marly Innovation Center designed by the architect…

Ilford Imaging went bankrupt in December 2013. The site of this global photographic material company, in Marley, near Fribourg, was not left fallow. On the contrary, a mammoth project, the…

Was the end of Ilford Imaging inevitable? “As a photo paper producer, it was doomed to extinction,” says Christian Dumas, who joined the company in 1970 and was one of…