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We're all about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn how to print photographs with these techniques, and take a look at the specialist publications. In the galleries, there is lots of inspiration with over 330 artists!

 

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New article

Gum printing basics

Seth got so into making gum, he even made his own gum kit - to help beginners getting started. Here he shows how he makes his prints.

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New artists

Joe Profita

from Bishop, California shares his Cyanotype Rex, Palladiums and a Salt print.


Fabien Cayere

from the Basque area in France, shares his Gum bichromates.
 


Johannes Madiol

already shows his Platinum prints here, and has now also added his Liths.


Quinn Jacobson

has sent us updated work, showing off his wetplate collodions.


Questionable? :-)

Getty Institute's work

What is that image, and how could it possible be relevant to alternative photographic processes? Read about Dusan and his colleagues at the Getty institute who are taking a very much closer look at alternative photographic processes - a molecular-level-look, that may even change history.


Exhibition

Szlachetna Inicjatywa

If you ever pondered the difference one of the alternative photographic process can make to any one photograph, here is the answer. The same negative reproduced in several different processes by several different artists.


Book review

Robert Hirsch's book Photographic Possibilities is now out in it's 3rd edition.

Review of Photographic Possibilities

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