North American photographers

Karen Landey cyanotype

Karen Landey

Karen Landey calls herself “A cyanotype newbie swept away by the magic.” She has been taking photographs for 60+ years and has started exploring cyanotypes for her collages. From: Veneta, Oregon, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes. A koan is an example of a paradox that transcends logic while silencing the mind. “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” is an example of a Zen koan.  This allows illumination to dawn by … Read more

Forrest Zerbe Mordancage

Forrest Zerbe

Forrest Zerbe is a photography graduate, artists, educator and adventurer who uses the Mordançage process as an expression of his art. From: Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. Shows: Mordancage. As a child, adventure was Forrest Zerbe’s first priority. Days were spent in the woods near his family home in western Pennsylvania where he used his imagination and creativity to construct a world of adventure. Forrest’s college years were spent traveling the country looking to … Read more

Brian K Edwards Platinum Palladium

Brian Edwards

Brian Edwards with an MFA in Photography shows his Platinum and Palladium work. He also works in gum bichromate and cyanotypes. From: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Shows: Platinum and palladium. Santa Fe New Mexico based photographer Brian K. Edwards specializes in fine art, travel, and documentary photography and photographic print making. He has photographed extensively in the southwest, across the United States, and internationally. His realist fine art photography includes … Read more

Platinum and palladium print by Dennis Segers

Dennis Segers

Dennis Segers, retired and with a passion for landscape photography works with alternative processes and the expression of combining methods, both digital and analogue. See his platinum palladiums and cyanotypes here. From: Carmel, California, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes and platinum palladiums. Recently retired from a high-tech career in Silicon Valley, Dennis Segers now resides near the Big Sur coastline of central California and focuses his creative energies on his long-time passion … Read more

Geoff Cohen

Geoff Cohen started with photography in the 1980s and has been exploring alternative photographic processes such as chemigrams and photograms. From: New York City, New York, USA. Shows: Chemigrams and Photograms. Starting with an Argus C3 in the 1980s, Geoff Cohen has studied and photographed. His studies include classes with Thom Browne and Tod Papageorge at Yale School of Art, where he also had a portfolio review with Richard Benson. … Read more

Pinhole by Walter Crump

Walter Crump

Walter Crump is a fine arts photographer whose primary alternative photography practice is constructing and photographing with pinhole cameras. He also captures the his environment with Holga Cameras and on occasion makes Cyanotype prints. From: Winston Salem NC he has lived in Boston Masatuchutes since the mid sixties. Shows: Pinhole, Holga and cyanotype prints Trained as a painter and printmaker, Crump gravitated to photography after he was asked to teach … Read more

Laura Blacklow

Laura Blacklow, from Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA is the author of “New Dimensions in Photo Processes” and also makes books with Cyanotypes, Vandykes and pastels. From: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes and Vandykes. Laura Blacklow is the author of New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-By-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques (Focal Press, revised fifth edition, 2018). She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship … Read more

Spiffy Tumbleweed

Spiffy Tumbleweed lives and works in South Austin, Texas. He works mainly in pinhole photography, but also shares his work in albumen, cyanotype, gum, mordancage and Polaroid SX-70. From: South Austin, Texas, USA. Shows: Albumen prints, Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Mordancages, Pinholes, Polaroid SX-70s. Working under the name Spiffy Tumbleweed, this artist lives and works in South Austin, TX and is active with a variety of photographic processes. He has been … Read more

Peggy Reeves Chemigrams

Peggy Reeves

Peggy Reeves has been working in alternative processes since the 90s. She experiments with chemisty and papers resulting in interesting chemigrams. From: Berkshires of western Massachusetts, USA. Shows: Chemigrams. Peggy Reeves lives and works in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Working with alternative processes began in the 90s when the school where she was teaching built a new campus with a darkroom but with only 4 enlargers for 16 12 … Read more

A Bromoil Transfer by Robert Gumpper (1928-2005)

Robert Gumpper (1928-2005)

Robert Gumpper ‘s gallery as a tribute to his life and work by his daughter Valarie. Robert Gumppner worked in Bromoil and Dye transfers. From: Bridgewater, Connecticut, USA Shows: Bromoils, Chlorobomide, Dye transfers, Gum bichromate and Palladium. Robert Gumpper (1928-2005) began his study of photography at the age of ten. He was most influenced by the Pictorial Movement and the Photo Secessionists. He studied and produced prints in a wide … Read more

Lynn Bierbaum Wet plate collodion

Lynn Bierbaum

Lynn Bierbaum, an American photographer, works in the unusual process of making wetplate collodions on glass. Lynn Bierbaum is a photographer and glassblower and makes the combination seems natural. From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Shows: Wet Plate Collodion on Blown Glass forms. Lynn Bierbaum is an alternative photographer and glassblower from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She started doing wet plate collodion two years ago and glassblowing shortly thereafter. She studied at the University … Read more

Debbie Eschoe Platinum and Palladium

Debbie Eschoe

Debbie Eschoe is a graduate of Brooklyn College where she studied Film Photography. She works in Platinum and Palladiums. From: New York, USA. Shows: Platinum and palladium. Debbie Eschoe is a Brooklyn based Photographer and Artisan. She was born in Jamaica but moved to New York City with her family when she was twelve years old. She is a graduate of Brooklyn College where she studied Film Photography. After graduation … Read more

Cyanotype by Jon Wollenhaupt

Jon Wollenhaupt

Jon Wollenhaupt has been a photographer for over 20 years and started working with alternative photograhic processer in 2019. Jon shows cyanotypes here and continues to expand his knowledge in other process. From: Sacramento, California, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes. Jon Wollenhaupt has been an obsessed photographer for about 20 years. He took his first workshop in alternative print processes with Cotton Miller in the summer of 2019 at the Santa Fe … Read more

Cyanotype by Ronni Mae Knepp

Ronni Mae Knepp

Ronni Mae Knepp – from Peyton, Colorado, USA is a fine art photographer working in cyanotype, lifts and watercolours. From: Peyton, Colorado, USA. Shows: Bleached Cyanotypes, Polaroid SX-70 Emulsion Lifts, Watercolor Painted 4×5 Negatives. Ronni Mae Knepp is an American Fine Art Photographer that specializes in black and white postmodern photography and often incorporates experimental and alternative processes. Her works build awareness for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as well as … Read more

Cyanotype by Jonah Calinawan

Jonah Calinawan

Jonah Calinawan, and accountant from Phillippines who turned cyanotype artist and moved to the USA shares his work. Born in Philippines, from: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Shows: Cyanotypes. Born in the Philippines, Jonah Calinawan is an accountant turned cyanotype artist. He currently lives and works in the seaport city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, where he combines autobiography and fiction to create stories with his cyanotype collages. His ongoing photography project, A … Read more

Melody Locke

Melody Locke

Melody Locke, from Houston, Texas, started experimenting with lumen prints in 2015 and devotes most of her time in the darkroom to this process. See her work here. From: Houston, Texas, USA. Shows: Lumen prints. In 2007, Melody Locke began attending Glassell School of Art, where she photographed rural and urban landscapes with black & white and infrared film. She processed her film and developed silver gelatin prints in a … Read more

Dennis Ramos

Dennis Ramos

Dennis Ramos works in carbon transfers and platinum palladiums. He was born in the Philippines but lives in Florida. From: Tampa, Florida, USA. Shows: Carbon Transfer and Platinum Palladium processes. Dennis Ramos is an international award-winning fine art photographer born in Manila, Philippines. He migrated to the United States after completing a degree in medical science. His love and passion for photography started with artistic portraiture using mixed lighting. His … Read more