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Introduction to equipment, materials and handling procedures for 3 iron-based processes - new cyanotype, argyrotype & platino-palladiotype.
Writer / Mike Ware
Photography / Peter Bargh & Mike Ware

Anthony Mournian is an avid filmmaker, and his subject an interesting one: alt. proc. watch his collection of films!

The difference between the Kallitype, Vandyke and Argyrotype formulas.
Writer and photography / Wynn White

What sizing, pH and paperstrenght means to your print.
Writer / Lloyd Godman

Learn from other photographers experience with papers.
Share your own experience and tell us which papers work for you.

Outlines on a very simpliflied process of making paper. An introduction the old craft of papermaking.
Writer and photography / Anne Storm van Leeuwen

Which papers to size? Which formula to use? Take part and share your sizing experience or learn from others.

Is sizing needed? Follow the tests to find out.
Writer and photography / Geoff Chaplin

An excerpt from Jill's book with how-to and formulas on how to size papers.
Writer / Jill Enfield

Jalo Porkkala has tested papers for cyanotype printing and shares the result.
Writer and photography / Jalo Porkkala

Palladium, platinum, pt/pl, new cyanotype, new chrysotype and argyrotype printing test.
Writer and photography / Mike Ware

Which brushes to use when coating your paper.
Writer / Jim Read

The three most common ways of coating emulsion onto paper are floating the paper, using a coating rod, or brushing it on.
Writer and photography / Mark L. Eshbaugh

Jim scours the second hand shops finds a contact frame. He decides to build his own - and shows you how you can do it too.
Writer and illustrations / Jim Read

Extract from the book Cyanotypes on Fabric explaning how to make photograms.
Writer and photography / Ruth Brown

An extract from Sarah's book A non-silver manual .
Writer / Sarah van Keuren

Carlo finds the sun quite unreliable and builds his own UV printer.
Writer and photography / Carlo Ponzoni

Jonathan Bailey defines split-toning and tells it's history.
Writer / Jonathan Bailey
Photography / Jonathan Bailey, R.C. Clifford, Suzanne Izzo, Jerry Spagnoli

Jonathan Bailey lets us in on his formulaes and procedures for attempting split-toning.
Writer and photography / Jonathan Bailey

There are many different routes to the final negative. Here, Lloyd gives an overview of the different techniques.
Writer and photograph / Lloyd Godman

An easy way to make interesting negatives with the help of a computer and - if you think photoshop is too expensive - a cheaper program.
Writer and illustrations / Jim Read

How to make enlarged negatives by reversal.
Writer and photography / Ed Buffaloe

Tuning a negative into a postitive in the darkroom.
Writer and photography / Jan Kapoor

Christina Z. Anderson describes 4 ways to creativly destroy your negatives, giving them a little extra bite.
Writer / Christina Z. Anderson
Photography / Claire Calhoun, Brent Losing, Kim Tallent and Betsy Winchell

Make a photographic negative on paper, from a pinhole camera more transparent, so you can print with it.
Writer / Malin Fabbri

Geologist Clay Harmon applies his skills to photography and has developed his own curve for a Pyro-like digital negative.
Writer and illustrations / Clay Harmond

Alex outlines a method of combining pyro, digital negs and alt. proc.
Writer and photography / Alex Tymkow

Photoshop curves are a great tool for creating a balanced digital negative. They help you control the tonal values and contrast of an image or a negative.

Jim Read calibrates his digital camera to make cyanotype printing even better.
Writer and photography / Jim Read

Melissa Jolley tells us how she combines digital artwork with historic photographic processes.
Writer and photography / Melissa Jolley

Allan Lamb, author of Framing Photography and a certified picture framer reflects on the importance of proper archival techniques.
Writer and photography / Allan Lamb

How to make a book of your art - or art of a book.
Writer and photography / Gail Erwin

Jackie, a very experienced quilt maker, shows how she incorporates cyanotypes, or blueprints on fabric, made from plants into her quilts.
Writer / Jaqueline Van Fossen

Palma Allen shows us how to Slit-Mount Polaroid Time Zero Mono Prints in a professional manner.
Writer and photography / Palma Allen

Tips for photographers working in the commercial world on how to present your work and create a portfolio.
Writer / Selina Oppenheim

Instructions on how to make a handmade album - a great place to store all your alt. proc. prints.
Writer and photography / Elizabeth Graves

A truly fun card making project.
Writer and photography / Carol Barton

Elizabeth instructs us on how to cut a mat for your prints.
Writer and photography / Elizabeth Graves

Peter runs us through the choices we have to make when choosing a mat.
Writer and photography / Peter Wiklund

How to care for and wash your cyanotypes printed on fabric.
Writer and photography / Malin Fabbri

Palma Allen talks about taking photographs on graveyards, symbology and infrared photography.
Writer and photography / Palma Allen

Interview with a book artist, paper engineer and author of the Pocket Paper Engineer.
Photography / Carol Barton

Visit to an school in Sweden where students learn alternative photography in a leisurly manner.
Writer and photography / Malin Fabbri

Diana talks about her large format and pinhole images.
Writer and photography / Diana Bloomfield

Challenged Visions.
Writer / Robert A. Schaefer Jr.
Photography / John Dugdale and Fox Flo

Late, but not too late in life, Will pursues his passion for the wet plate collodion process.
-Writer / Andrea Kahn
Photography / Will Dunniway and Nikolay Chigirev

A picture diary of a Web Plate Collodion workshop in May 2009.
-Writer / Will Dunniway
Photography / Will Dunniway, Frances Dunniway, Mike Okey

Interview with Jill Enfield, and a look at her book Photo-Imaging: A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes.
Writer / Robert A. Schaefer, Jr.
Photography / Jill Enfield

Interview after the publication of the beginners guide to cyanotypes: Blueprint to Cyanotypes.
Writer / Robert A. Schaefer, Jr.
Photography / Elizabeth Graves, Francis Baker, Robert Schaefer & Wendy Currie

Malin Fabbri brings cyanotypes to the web. The story of Malin Fabbri: Founder of AlternativePhotography.com.
Writer / Antony Mournian
Photography / Malin Fabbri

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2008 - at 2 years and 4 months is he the youngest participant?
Writer and photography / Malin Fabbri

Time, energy and expertise.
Writer and photography / Photo Insider Magazine

Interview with the man behind the "The-alt-photo-process mailing list", also known as just The List.
Photography / Gordon J. Holtslander

Dusan Stulik and colleagues at the Getty institute are taking a very much closer look at alternative photographic processes - a molecular-level-look, that may even change history.
-Writers / Dr. Dusan Stulik and Art Kaplan

Gregg Kemp from Pinhole Visions interviews Edward Levinson after reading his book Timescapes Japan - A Pinhole Journey .
Interviewer / Gregg Kemp

Interview by Diffusion magazine on her Ophelia series.
Interviewer / Diffusion magazine
Photography / Tina Maas

Interview with a photography teacher at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan.
Interviewer / Malin Fabbri
Photography / Farah Mahbub

Network - 25 Degrees south Studios in South Africa is working to promote the alt. proc. arts in South Africa.
Interviewer / Malin Fabbri
Photography / Celeste McKenzie

Tom Miller, one of the photgraphers behind the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day talks about the event and his own pinhole obsession.
Interviewer / Malin Fabbri
Photography / Tom Miller

Listen to a radio interview with Martin Helmut Reis talking about art and alternative processes.

A group of Italian photographers and artists working with alternative photographic processes.
Writer / Alberto Novo
Photography / Alberto Novo

Fine Art Photography.
Writer and photography / Apple.com

Michael Shindler of RayKo Photo Center opens a new a wet plate collodion darkroom/studio for hire.
Writer / Elizabeth Graves
Photography / Michael Shindler

Inspired by The pencil of nature, Dennis prints lith, salt, cyanotype and vandyke browns commercially.
Interviewer / Malin Fabbri
Photography / Dennis da Silva

Interview on how Linda came to be the owner of Blueprint on Fabric.
Interviewer / Malin Fabbri
Photography / Alex Stemer

Siderotype Quarterly editor Paul Daskarolis speaks with Mike Ware.
Writer / Paul Daskarolis

Elizabeth Graves visits Chocolate Covered, a cyanotype and chocolate shop in San Francisco.
Writer and photography / Elizabeth Graves

At three stories high, eleven stories long, Guinness Records says it is the largest photograph in the world.
Writer / Anthony Mournian
Photography / The Legacy Project ©

An extract from Brian J. Krummel's new pinhole book The Pinhole Camera.
Writer and photography / Brian Krummel

An extract from Laura Blacklow's book New Dimensions in Photo Processes.
Writer / Jesseca Ferguson
Photography / Walter Crump

Large format vintage cameras.
Writer / Paul Lewis

Toy cameras - Robert Hirsch argues the case for using a Holga camera.
Writer and photography / Robert Hirsch

June Lang tries out the 20 dollar Holga on some mermaids.
Writer / June Lang @ NYIP
Photography / Jim Barthman, June Lang and Tod Hensley

'Medium format Marie' explains the basics and tries out the 'Seagull'.
Writer / Marie @ NYIP
Photography / Martha Cooper, Jim Barthman, June Lang

The Pentax 645NII Visits the Jersey Shore.
Writer / Marie @ NYIP
Photography / June Lang

Jonathan is looking for the effect in images created by old cameras, and builds a camera to acheive results.
Writer and photography / Jonathan Brewer

The story continues... the fabrication of a single glass element lens with exposure control.
Writer and photography / Jonathan Brewer

Tarja is mapping out the sun, sending pinhole cameras all over the world to record the path of the sun.
Writer / Tarja Trygg
Photography / Tarja Trygg, Christine Brault

The myth: A pinhole camera cannot be used to make cyanotypes! True or not?
Writer and photography / Malin Fabbri

The New York Institute of Photography gives us tips on buying used cameras and other equipment.
Writer and illustrations / NYIP

Anthony Mournian from the Photographers' Formulary reviews the big book of inspiration.
Writer / Anthony Mournian

Anthony Mournian from the Photographers' Formulary reviews the beginners guide to cyanotypes.
Writer / Anthony Mournian

Elizabeth Graves picks up the first copy and just loves it.
Writer / Elizabeth Graves

John Marriage reviews John Evans' cd-book.
Writer / John Marriage

Elizabeth Graves tries out the Kallitype printing kit from the Photographers' Formulary and gives us a couple of good tips.
Writer and photography / Elizabeth Graves

Malin read Robert Hirsch's third edition of Photographic Possibilities - and will be going straight into the darkroom after writing a review.
Writer / Malin Fabbri

Malin takes a look at Brian J. Krummel's new pinhole book The Pinhole Camera - A Practical How-To Book for Making Pinhole Cameras and Images.
Writer / Malin Fabbri

Anthony Mournian from the Photographers' Formulary reviews the pinhole guide, and, in the end, makes a few pinholes himself.
Writer / Anthony Mournian

A collaboration by Akademia Pstryk, The Children's Society and a group of 7 to 14 year old Roma children in East London.
Creator / Akademia Pstryk

Book by Robet Hirsch.
Writer / Dean Brierly

Anthony Mournian from the Photographers' Formulary reviews.
Writer / Anthony Mournian

Wynn White irons out the differences between Kallitypes and Vandykes.
Writer and photography / Wynn White

Eric Neilsen gives us a brief history of Platinum Palladium Printing and explains how it has branched out.
Writer and photography / Eric Neilsen

An extract from World of Lith Printing discussing the values of using digital equipment in lith printing.
Writer and photography / Tim Rudman

Mike Ware introduces us to the iron based alternative processes - from it's birth to present time.
Writer and photography / Mike Ware

A timeline and work in progress - feel free to add any facts. Contribute your five cents too.

A brief history of Cyanotypes.
Writer / Spike MacGee

A brief pinhole history by a pinhole expert.
Writer / Anita Chernewski

A history of the Wetplate collodion process and the different products produced: Ambrotypes, Ferrotypes and the Negative process.
Writer / Sean Mackenna

Taylor's take on the Platinum print. A very indepth and well researched piece of writing.
Writer / Taylor Whitney

Explaining terms like "gamut", "ppi" and "random dots", making sense of it all.
Information collected by / Malin Fabbri

Glossary of Terms for The platinum print: a catalyst for discussion.
Writer / Taylor Whitney

A collection of words and their origin.

Calculator from Fahrenheit to Celsius or from Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Calculate gram, pound and ounces - and even grains and scruples.

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