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Get Inspired – The Anna Atkins Tribute Journal

Christopher Osborne is the editor of Silvergrain Classics and an avid fan of journaling. He reviews our Anna Atkins tribute journal and is pleased with the result. Writer / Christopher Osborne The Anna Atkins Tribute Journal 2023 is the brainchild of Malin Fabbri. Malin is the driving force behind alternativephotography.com, the go-to source of information for anyone interested in alternative photographic techniques. For those of you who are not familiar … Read more

Review of Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1

Peter J. Blackburn reviews Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1, and finds this springboard and resource alluring – and is eagerly awaiting the next volume. Writer / Peter J. Blackburn If ever there was a medium that best captured the soft, the gentle, and the ethereal, anthotypes would be among the champions. And those delicate qualities are clearly on display in Malin Fabbri’s new text, Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1, which continues to … Read more

Anthotypes – book review

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!

Christopher James alternative photographic processes

Christopher James’ book: The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes

The third edition of Christopher James’ “The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes” is now out… check it out.

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.

The Experimental Photography Workbook – book review

Malin takes a look at Christina Z. Anderson’s latest edition of The Experimental Photography Workbook – and finds it gets better and better with each edition.

Sam Wang, Four Decades of Photographic Explorations

Christina Z. Andersson reviews Sam Wangs book.

A Non-Silver Manual: Preface

The Preface of Sarah Van Keuren’s book “A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography”

The Pocket Engineer, Volume 1 – How to Make Pop-Ups Step-by-Step

A mini review of The Pocket Engineer by Carol Barton which shows you how to make pop ups.

Notes on Rexer’s ‘The Edge of Vision’

Elizabeth Graves reviews “The introduction to The Edge of Vision: the Rise of Abstraction in Photography” by Lyle Rexer.

From pinhole to print – by The Royal Photographic Society Journal

Ray Spence from The Royal Photographic Society Journal reviews From pinhole to print.

Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch

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

The Pinhole Camera by Brian J. Krummel

Malin Fabbri 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.

Brought to Light: Photography and the invisible 1840 – 1900

Elizabeth Graves reviews a book of inspiring alternative process images with a surprising emphasis.

Romano Bumburumbum picture book – in pinhole

The Roma picture book Romano Bumburumbum is a collaboration by Akademia Pstryk, The Children’s Society and a group of 7 to 14 years old talented Roma children living in East London. We talk to Jacob Garber from the Childrens’ Society about the project.