Getting Larry Newton to talk about his art is easy. Finding a good time for the discussion is the hard part. This summer Saturday we’re in the studio, and it’s hot inside. Newton apologizes for the inconvenience. "The building air is only turned on for the work week. I’m only in the darkroom on weekends," he explains. "As much as I commit myself to fine-art photography, it’s not a living by itself …yet. Like so many artists, I have a day job."
He doesn’t expect that to change soon. But, if recent awards are any indication, he looks forward to some little bit of fame (if not fortune) before he dies. The studio, as he calls it, is made up of three rooms in a second-floor corner of a warehouse in the industrial end of Long Beach, California. It consists of a darkroom, studio space, and storage.
Today he is fortifying the cracks around the door to the darkroom with opaque weather-stripping. "I think this old building has shifted," he said, "so I need more of this to block the light." He further explains that the warehouse space, with its solid walls, floors and ceilings, is much easier to make light-proof than when he was using his apartment living space for the same work. "There are no windows here," he continues, "thank God."
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