European photographers – AlternativePhotography.com

LIVI

Lidiana Ceruti and Vincenzo Marino, working as LIVI, explore landscapes, particularly waterscapes, wetlands, and lagoons, through light, reflections, and colour, transforming photographs into cyanotypes that connect contemporary photography with visual memory. From: Como, Italy Shows: Cyanotypes Lidiana Ceruti and Vincenzo Marino, working together as LIVI, are photographers united by a passion for landscape and its power to evoke emotion. Their practice focuses particularly on waterscapes, wetlands and lagoons, explored through … Read more

Andrea Baldi

Andrea Baldi is trained at the Ettore Rolli School in Rome, he explores how materials, chemistry, and printing variables shape the final image. Working with alternative and handmade processes he often combines multiple processes and alternative papers to create layered prints rich in texture and tonal depth. From: Bologna, Italy Shows: Gum, three and four colours, Cyanotypes, Gum over Cyanotype, Gum over ziatype, Vandyke Browns, Ziatypes Andrea Baldi is a … Read more

Johannes Schmidt

Johannes Schmidt creates cameraless photograms & lumenprints with plants & historic papers, blending chemistry, chance & surreal beauty. Stunning colours, textures & subconscious connections. From: Born in Germany, lives in Nantes, France Shows: Chemigrams, lumenprints, toned cyanotypes Johannes Schmidt is a self-taught amateur. A pinhole workshop brought him in a darkroom, where he later discovered his passion for cameraless photography. He became fascinated by light, supports, photosensitive matter and photochemistry, … Read more

Manfred J. Semmler

Manfred J. Semmler photographs travel, street life, and concerts, using available light and shadow to shape mood. His work balances objective observation with a deeply personal, subjective perspective. From: Germany Shows: Cyanotypes Manfred J. Semmler focuses on travel, street, and concert photography—capturing scenes, people, and the environments that shape everyday life. He values available light that preserves sharp detail, with shadow serving as a defining counterpart that strengthens form and … Read more

Wisteria

Wisteria, a self-taught artist based in Angers, France, works with cyanotype, merging digital practices, alternative processes, and abandoned landscapes. From: Angers, France Shows: Cyanotypes Wisteria is a self-taught artist based in Angers, France. She works primarily with cyanotype and enjoys experimenting with materials and surfaces, combining digital practices with alternative photographic processes. Over the years, she explored abandoned places and created mirror effects in her work. Although she began exhibiting, … Read more

Manuela Meier

Manuela Meier, a lifelong creative, blends her love of paper, photography, and collage through cyanotype. What began as simple prints has evolved into expressive, handcrafted collages celebrating “strong women.” Her work merges traditional craft with modern aesthetics, reflecting a deep passion for experimentation, materials, and the enduring “blue magic” of cyanotype. From: Germany Shows: Cyanotypes Manuela Meier is a creative hobby artist with a deep passion for art, craft, and … Read more

Marian Verkerk

Marian Verkerk is a visual artist whose work explores memory, time, and impermanence through experimental photographic processes, combining cyanotype, lumen prints, chemograms, and hybrid analogue–digital techniques. From: Friesland, the Netherlands Shows: Cyanotypes, duotones and tri colour, and Lumen prints Marian Verkerk is a visual artist working with experimental photographic processes that challenge the stability of the image. Combining cyanotype, lumen printing, chemograms, Van Dyke brown, and hybrid analogue–digital approaches, my … Read more

Georg Sedlmeir

Georg Sedlmeir, a Munich-based geographer and photographer, explores alternative printing and DIY camera modifications. Influenced by his background in sustainable development, he embraces cyanotype and gum printing for their tactile, experimental, and eco-friendly nature. From: Munich, Germany Shows: Cyanotypes and Gum prints Georg Sedlmeir is a geographer and photographer from Munich, Germany, with close family ties to Wisconsin. Starting in photography in the 1980s with his mother’s Kodak Retinette, he … Read more

Lucrees van Groningen

Lucrees van Groningen specialises in palladium and three-color gum printing. Her handcrafted prints explore themes like decay, memory, and everyday beauty, blending technical precision with a deep appreciation for slow, tactile processes. From: Deventer, The Netherlands Shows: Gum bichromates, Gum over Palladium, and Palladium prints Lucrees van Groningen is a Dutch photographer who specializes in palladium printing and three-colour gum printing. Photography has been a lifelong passion for Lucrees, beginning … Read more

Anne Risum

Anne Risum, a Danish painter and alternative photographer, intuitively crafts cyanotypes using layered negatives, ink, fire, and toning. She also teaches cyanotype to young and disabled artists. From: Denmark Shows: Cyanotypes Anne Risum, a 53-year-old Danish figurative painter and alternative photographer, uses cyanotype as a medium. A professional figurative painter for 25 years, she relies on photographs for her work, capturing the stories of inspiring people. Over time, she amassed … Read more

Magda Kuca

Magda Kuca (1993) is a Polish visual artist, photographer and educator based in London, working with historical photographic processes. From: London, UK & Poland Shows: Chlorophyll prints, Vandyke prints and Wetplate collodions. As an educator, Magda Kuca teaches from her London studio, focusing on early image-making methods through hands-on workshops and lectures. Her clients include the British Museum, WeTransfer, and Lomography. Magda Kuca’s work is concerned with contexts of memory, … Read more

Merete Lien

Merete Lien, a Norwegian photographer, creates evocative works combining beauty with themes of loss, using alternative processes like Van Dyke and cyanotype. Her art has been exhibited internationally. From: Tydal, Norway Shows: Cyanotypes, Salt prints and Vandykes Merete Lien was born in 1956, grew up in the city of Trondheim, but now lives in Tydal – a small mountain village in central Norway. She is a self-taught photographer, who also … Read more

Julie McMahon

Julie McMahon, a UK-based photographic artist, transforms Cyanotype’s unpredictability into bespoke art, from botanical lampshades to silk prints, blending nature’s beauty with experimental alchemy and collaborative storytelling. From: Shrewsbury, England, UK Shows: Cyanotypes Julie McMahon is a UK-based photographic artist with a passion for Cyanotype, a process she first discovered while studying for her Bachelor of Arts in Photography. Today, Julie specialises in working with Cyanotype, embracing its abundant creativity, … Read more

Sylvia Charbonnier

Sylvia Charbonnier, a French-born visual artist, creates cyanotypes that explore the ubiquity of plastic pollution. Her works blend plastic waste with botanicals, evoking underwater worlds and addressing environmental destruction through layered altered blue tones. From: Nürnberg, Germany Shows: Cyanotypes Sylvia Charbonnier is a visual artist and graphic designer born in France who is currently living in Germany. She studied painting and illustration at the Peck School of the Arts in … Read more

Hiske Dooper

Hiske Dooper, a modern dance teacher and PSYCH-K® Facilitator in Arnhem, discovered cyanotype photography during the 2020 lockdown. She enjoys the balance of control and unpredictability in her art, embracing imperfections in her creative process. From: Arnhem, The Netherlands Shows: Cyanotypes It started with a beer on the balcony. Boyfriend Peter noticed that a fuchsia looked pretty much like a fairy and the other image thinker Hiske immediately thought that … Read more

Stig Marlon Weston

Stig Marlon Weston, a photographer from Oslo, Norway, has over 25 years of experience in analog photography, emphasizing alternative processes to explore the connection between subject and image. His work, showcased internationally, focuses on landscape photography and experimental techniques. Weston also manages CYAN studio and initiated the Nordic Analog Network. From: Oslo, Norway Shows: Chemigrams, Lumen prints and Silver gelatin Photograms Stig Marlon Weston studied professional photography right before digital … Read more

Marian Fannon Christian

Marian Fannon Christian, a British/Irish artist, draws inspiration from her upbringing in rural Ireland and extensive travels. Her art, spanning ink, pastels, watercolours, acrylics, and cyanotypes, explores the transcendental and seeks to evoke serenity through natural motifs. From: Leeds, UK Shows: Cyanotypes Marian Fannon Christian is a British/Irish artist who has travelled extensively. She grew up in beautiful and primitive surroundings in Co. Mayo on the west coast of Ireland … Read more

Els Wiering

Dutch visual artist Els Wiering resides in Málaga, Spain. After a career in ICT, she pursued Fine Arts at the Academy of Minerva, Groningen. Her work, evolving from solid sculptures to airy expressions, explores reductionism and joyful minimalism, often utilising the cyanotype process to depict Costa del Sol’s summer essence. From: Málaga, Spain Shows: Cyanotypes Elsiena Wiering is a Dutch visual artist living in Málaga Spain since 2017. She grew … Read more

Anna Walsh

British artist Anna Walsh draws inspiration from her rural upbringing in Worcestershire and her mother’s environmental activism. With a background in Art & Aesthetics and an MA in Book Arts, she explores human-nature interactions through cyanotype, fiction, and anecdotal narratives. A founding member of Garudio Studiage, her work is featured in the Tate Gallery and various private collections. From: London, UK Shows: Cyanotypes Anna Walsh is a British, London-based artist. … Read more

Kim Tillyer

After pursuing family life, Kim Tillyer returned to art, earning a first-class degree in Textiles and Surface Design. Her cyanotype art, featured on BBC Countryfile, culminated in her book “A Beginner’s Guide to Cyanotype.” From: Loweswater, Cumbria, UK Shows: Cyanotypes Kim Tillyer was born in London and moved to North Yorkshire at the age of 13 when her parents returned to the North York Moors and family roots in Middlesbrough. … Read more

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