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
Mac Cosgrove-Davies is a self-taught photographer specializing in historic processes like gum bichromate, cyanotype, and wet plate since 1978. He teaches at Photoworks, Glen Echo Park, and has work in the Smithsonian and Library of Congress. From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Shows: Carbon prints, Cyanotypes (also hand-coloured), Gum bichromate, Oil prints and Tintypes. Mac Cosgrove-Davies is a self-taught photographer who since 1978 has been practising historic photographic processes including gum bichromate, … Read more
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 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
Günther Wilhelm has been working with historical photographic techniques for 20+ years. He shares his gum bichromates here but also works in a range of other processes such as cyanotype, salt, albumen and kallitype. From: Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. Shows: Albumens, Cuprotypes and Gum bichromates. Günther Wilhelm, visual artist from Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, has been working with historical photographic techniques, the so-called “Edeldrucke”, which involve transferring a photography on … Read more
Yaroslav Golubchyk is in search of “non-standard” techniques and has been working in alt. proc. for 15 years and shows a range of processes. From: Kyiv, Ukraine. Shows: Chemigrams, Cyanotypes, Gum bichromate, Gum over cyanotypes, Gumoils, Kallitype, Mordancage, Oilprints, and Photoetching. Yaroslav Golubchyk, was born in 1971 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has been working for more than 15 years in different techniques of alternative photography and also tutoring art photography … Read more
Greek photographer Dimosthenis Bitras uses both darkroom photography and alt. proc. He shows his Gum Bichromates here. From: Athens, Greece. Shows: Caffenol and Gum bichromates. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Dimosthenis Bitras first got in touch with alternative photography in 2013, by experimenting with the gum bichromate process. It was the first time he got into the process of manually creating an image. Later on he continues to experiment … Read more
Having completed her BA at Montana State University, Alyssa McKenna pursues alternative photography and shows her Chemigrams, Chrysotypes, Gum and Mordancages. From: Bozeman, Montana, USA. Shows: Chemigrams, Chrysotypes, Gum and Mordancages. Alyssa McKenna is a Colorado native completing her BA in Film and Photography at Montana State University. Alyssa McKenna is passionate about the arts as visual ways of expression and communication, specifically photography. Her areas of photographic interest are … Read more
Jane Wiley, a professional photo archivist, shows her combinations of old and new in the shape of gum bichromates and cyanotype. From: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, and a mix of the two. Jane Wiley was raised in North Carolina by a long line of passionate photographers and adventurous women. She experienced loss at an early age when her father was killed in Vietnam. Her mother’s Polaroid … Read more
Richard Bailey from the UK is now retired from teaching and lecturing in art and design and pursuing alternative photography. From: Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Shows: Casein bichromates, cyanotypes and gum bichromates. Richard Bailey retired after over 30 years as a teacher and lecturer in art and design education. His teaching experience was across a number of areas within art and design including fine art, photography, graphic design and digital … Read more
Alan Glover, a UK photographer, has been exploring gum bichromate from a photographic point of view with plans to expand his work into a more artistic expression and in different kinds of processes. From: Between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, UK. Shows: Gum bichromates. Alan Glover spent most of his life as a man with a job and a hobby, which just happened to be photography. In 2014, while looking for more … Read more
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
Inkyung Seo is from South Korea, and attended a printmaking graduate school in 2007. She works in gumprints using water colours. From: Ilsan, South Korea. Shows: Gumprints. Inkyung Seo’s gumprint started since the summer of 2007 in Sungshin women’s university printmaking graduate school in south Korea. And She works in a beautiful city, Ilsan. She enjoyed experimental gumprints using water colors, and said its dreamy colors are its true charm, … Read more
Ian Phillips McLaren shot fashion and portraits for over 20 years before turning his attention to Pictorialism working in processes such as albumen, cyanotype and gum bichromated. From: Born in Scottland, lives in East Anglia, England. Shows: albumen, cyanotype and gum bichromates. Ian Phillips McLaren, British artist originally from Scotland now living in East Anglia, (just outside London). Ian shot fashion and portraits for over 20 years before turning his … Read more
Vanessa Wiggins is an Australian photographic artist working in carbons, gum bichromated and cyanotypes. Her work seeks to engage the viewer on several levels; to prompt or challenge social collective memory and to evoke the viewers’ internal dialogue of their experience. From: Vanessa works between Sydney and her studio in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia. Shows: Four colour carbon transfer, Gum bichromate, Cyanotype. Vanessa Wiggins’s visual imagery work draws on objects … Read more
David Aimone’s work explores relationships using gum bichromate, cyanotype prints, platinum prints and kallitypes. From: Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Kallitypes, Platinum prints. “David Aimone’s images reflect on the very essence of human life. His is an exploration between his own personal and intimate relationship with his self—in body and mind—and his interaction with forms in the visible world. A reminder of Hemingway’s man versus man, … Read more
Fabien Cayere from the Basque area in France, shares his Gum bichromates printed on wood, sometimes with pinhole, sometimes hand coloured. From: Anglet (South west France), Basque Country, France. Shows: Gum bichromates, pinholes, hand coloured. Fabien Cayere lives near Biarritz in the French basque country and near the Atlantic ocean. He learn argentic process during his graphic design study in 1992. Fabien spends most of his time in his workshop … Read more
Picto Benelux is a photographic group with artists from Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg working in alternative photographic processes. From: Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg. Shows: Daguerrotype, Carbon prints, Bromoils, Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Heliogravures, Orotypes, Pinholes, Vandykes, Platinum print, Solargraphy, Sury prints, Vandykes. PICTO Benelux brings together photographers from Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg and neighboring areas, interested in historic photographic processes corresponding to their artistic sensitivity, wishing to share the … Read more
Megan Crawford, from Montana, has a background in history, which led her to explore alternative processes such as salted paper, chromoskedasic sabattier and mordançage. From: Columbia Falls, Montana, USA. Shows: Gum bichromate, salted paper, gum over salt, chromoskedasic sabattier and mordançage. Megan Crawford (b. 1995) is an alternative process photographer based in northwestern Montana. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Photography from Montana State University in 2017. … Read more
