Photo Colour Services was a lab in the Jo’burg inner-city. While on residency at the Bag Factory, UK-artist Stuart Whipps came across it and salvaged bags of negatives that were about to be destroyed in the lab shut-down. In 2014, Whipps printed the negatives and returned the images to Johannesburg as an archive during Lab: An Exhibition in Three Parts.
Curated in collaboration with Amy Watson, PCSII invited Stuart Whipps back to Johannesburg to deepen the investigation. Whipps presented the archive to Market Photo Workshop students, WITS Creative Writing MA students, academics and artists. He also produced a collage of some of his findings which were installed on the street-facing facade of the Ithuba Gallery as a billboard.