Love alternative processes?

We're all about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn how to print photographs with these techniques, or share your own experiences with others. Welcome.

Workshops

Alternative Photography in Ancient Places, Sept. 9-16, 2012

We start by making a pinhole camera. Emphasis is on "slow" photography... film based, vintage and toy cameras.

Meetings & talks

A collodion party / day 27 May 2012, Italy

A collodion party day is planned in Polesella, Rovigo (1 hour from Venice), Italy.

Kirlian photographers

John Iovine
John Iovine

North American photographers – East & East Coast From: Staten Island, New York, USA. Shows: Kirlian process. See gallery

Cyanotype photographers

Blog Elizabeth Graves
Elizabeth Graves

From: San Francisco, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes, Kallitypes, Photopolymer gravures, Vandyke browns, Vandykes over cyanotype and Wet plate collodions. See gallery

Call for entries

Open Call for Photo Entry – Fading Light. Deadline: June 26, 2012

Open to Interpretation is a collaborative book project bringing together photographers, poets and writers.

Workshops

Encaustic Photography Workshops in Minneapolis, Friday May 18, 2012

Learn the techniques of working with encaustic and photography. This alternative photographic process uses the mixed media of hot wax and pigments to enhance your images.

Essays on alt. proc.

Blog Elizabeth Graves
How “alt” is alt?

Elizabeth Graves on the alt. proc. label on art - loathing it or loving it?

Exhibitions

Living Echo : photos printed onto leaves using sunlight

Rachel Sokal exhibits her new series of ephemeral chlorophyll prints, photos printed onto leaves using only sunlight.

Workshops

Alternative Photography Course in Bristol UK (weekly, 5 weeks in May 2012)

5 week evening class in May, covering pinhole photography, lumen printing, anthotype, cyanotype and salt print.. Suitable for any level. Brisol, UK.

Pinholes

Nancy Breslin Blog
Celebrate pinhole photography!

If you have a pinhole camera, or have been itching to use one, this is a great excuse to take part in pinhole day 2012.

North American photographers – West & West Coast

Kate-Jordahl
Kate Jordahl

North American photographers – West & West Coast From: Hayward, California, USA. Shows: Platinum and palladiums. See gallery

Book reviews

Anthotype book
Anthotypes

Author and artist, Malin Fabbri, along with a team of dedicated contributors have compiled a new book filled with ideas and imagery originating from a location one would least expect - your garden!

Workshops

“The Colorful Print: Cyanotype, Chromatype & Photogenic Drawing” – June 11-14, 2012

Learn the cyanotype, photogenic drawing, chromotype, and Bayard's direct positive printing processes.

After printing and mounting

Amit x 4 / hand painted photograph on canvas using acrylic paints.
Handcoloring and painting photographs

Hand-coloring your photos not only allows you intimate contact with the photo but also a great deal of creative freedom. Nitsa Malik shows us how.

Gum bichromate photographers

Jodie-Hooker
Jodie Hooker

North American photographers – West & West Coast From: Sacramento, California, USA. Shows: Gum bichromates, Gum over cyanotype, Gum over platinum and palladiums. See gallery

Cyanotype photographers

James Hanson
James Hanson

North American photographers – East & East Coast From: Michigan, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes and vandykes. See gallery

Open blog

Nancy Breslin Blog
Francesca Woodman’s blueprints

Nancy Breslin visits Francesca Woodman's exhibition and discovers diazotypes.

Call for entries

Call for Entry: Portfolio Showcase, deadline April 26 2012

Juror Dan Estabrook will select eight photographers, and the work will be on display in two shows.

Book reviews

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Cette Montagne, C’est Moi / This Mountain That’s Me (2006-2011)

Witho Worms and how he made the book Cette Montagne, C’est Moi / This Mountain That’s Me (2006-2011) on his Carbon prints.

Transfers and lifts

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Acrylic gel lift and transfer

A taste of what will soon be a book by Brady Wilks.
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