Vandyke photographers – AlternativePhotography.com

Julie Mixon

Julie Mixon is a Professor of Photography at Francis Marion University whose practice explores alternative photographic processes, combining historical techniques with digital and analogue experimentation. Her work often focuses on family and nature, reflecting her interest in the intersection of science, art, and photography. From: Florence, South Carolina, USA Shows: Cyanotypes, Lumens, Transfers and VanDykes Julie Mixon is a Professor of Photography at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. … Read more

Chris Peregoy

Chris Peregoy blends 40 years of photography with digital, traditional, and historic processes, creating images that explore forgotten and imagined memories. From: Baltimore, USA Shows: Vandykes Chris Peregoy is an artist who has been actively showing photographically derived artworks for the past 40 years. Originally trained in traditional photographic practices, his current work crosses the boundaries between digital, traditional, and primitive photography and marries digital image-making with historic photographic processes … 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

Suzanne Izzo

Suzanne Izzo, a Washington, DC-based artist, blends experimental techniques like gum bichromate, cyanotype, and skiatype, crafting abstract, pattern-rich works showcased in galleries and international alternative photography exhibits. From: Washington, DC, USA Shows: Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Salt prints and VanDyke Suzanne Izzo was introduced to photography as a child by her father and worked with him to produce silver gelatin prints in their basement darkroom. Many years later while clearing out … 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

Alfonso de Castro

Alfonso de Castro, a Spanish professor shows argyrotypes, vandykes platinum & palladiums and a range of different processes in his gallery. From: Spain. Shows: Argyrotypes, Cyanotypes, Platinum and Palladium and Vandykes. Alfonso de Castro lives in Spain and is a professor at the University of Barcelona, where he has been teaching photography for many years. He is also naturally a photographer himself. Alfonso de Castro is especially interested in portraits, … Read more

Susan Chainey

Susan Chainey has been working on and off in the darkroom with alternative photographic processes since the 70s. She currently works with Cyanotypes and Vandykes. From: Berkeley, California, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes and Vandykes. Susan Chainey taught English for over thirty years but her other work/love was photography (which she also taught occasionally). In the 1970’s she concentrated on portraits, using traditional film and darkroom processing techniques. At the same time, … Read more

Colin Knight

Colin Knight, a surgeon, also studied photography and works in cyanotypes, polymer photogravure and vandykes. From: Miami, Florida, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes, Polymer Photogravure and VanDykes. Colin Knight is a Miami-based photographer and pediatric surgeon. He initially studied black and white photography at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He’s currently an MFA candidate in Photography at Barry University where he studied alternative processes with Scott Weber and RemiJin Camping. … Read more

Michele Pero

Michele Pero is an Italian photographer with many irons in the fire. He runs a blog, is a founder of a photography school and works in a variety of processes. From: Città di Castello (PG), Italy I Shows: Ambrotypes, Cyanotypes and Vandykes. Michele Pero, who this guy may be? Former war and commercial photographer. On the field since 1992 as a full-time photographer. First steps moved into the darkroom in … Read more

Nina Adler

Nina Adler, a self-taught photographer, born in Denmark, but lives in France takes photographs from her travels and prints them in the cyanotype or vandyke process or makes xerox liths of them. From: Montcuq, South West France Born: Denmark Shows: Cyanotypes, Vandykes and Xerox lithography. Nina Adler is a Danish-born self-taught photographer who chose to live in a village in S.W. France 20 years ago. She is using digital cameras … Read more

Oliviero Olivieri

Oliviero Olivieri is a photographer based in Rome where he has a portrait studio with his darkroom. He shows his cyanotypes and vandykes. From: Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy Shows: Cyanotypes and Vandykes. Oliviero Olivieri was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, he is an internationally recognized photographer who has been exhibiting and publishing his work for over 30 years, following his photographic studies at the Central Art School London. He has traveled the … Read more

Nóra Fanni Zentay

Nóra Fanni Zentay is a visual artist and researcher from Hungary working in Cyanotypes, Vandykes, Chemigrams, Lumens, Chemilumens. From: Érd, Hungary. Shows: Cyanotypes, Vandykes, Chemigrams, Lumens, Chemilumens. Nóra Fanni Zentay is a Hungarian visual artist and researcher. She earned an MA in Graphic Design from the University of Hertfordshire (IDI), UK and completed the Doctoral Programme in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Currently she is … 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

Geertjan Plooijer

Geertjan Plooijer was inspired by his parents who had a strong interest in photography. Geertjan works with large format photography and uses processes like cyanotype, salt prints and vandykes. Born: The Netherlands, lives: Mörlunda, Sweden Shows: Cyanotypes, Salt prints and Vandykes. Geertjan was born in 1957 in Utrecht the Netherlands and now lives in Mörlunda in Sweden. Both his parents where photographing and filming. When getting his first camera at … Read more

Chelin Miller

Chelin Miller, a South American artist living in both Latin America and the United Kingdom is inspired by different cultural influences around the world to create her work. From: Bogota, Colombia, South America Shows: Argyrotype, Cyanotypes, Pinholes, Platinum and Palladium, Van Dykes. Chelin is a visual artist specialising in documentary photography and filmmaking, with focus on historical alternative processes. She is currently researching historical printing methods and hybrid modern technologies … Read more

Picto Benelux Photographic group

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

Francis Schanberger

From: Ohio, USA.
Shows: Anthotypes, Vandykes.
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Jill Enfield

Jill Enfield has been working with and lecturing about infrared film and hand-painting since the 80’s. From: Newburgh, New York, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes, Kallitypes, Liquid emulsion, Platinum & palladium, Vandykes. Jill Enfield is a fine art photographer, educator, and author. Her concentration is historical techniques and alternative processes, with annual workshops and lectures in locations around the world. She has been teaching at Parsons The New School of Design … Read more

Keith Nourse

Keith Nourse from London works in several processes like Salt prints, all using paper negatives. From: London, England lives in France. Shows: Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Salt prints, Vandykes. Born in London in 1958, Keith only uses equipment that is older than he is; from his mainstay Rolleiflex TLR to a 1905 mahogany, brass and leather Sanderson Field camera. He has been taking pictures since his father bought him a plastic … Read more

Beverly Evans

Beverley Evans has been interested in photography since she was a child but only became serious about it 6 years ago when she got her first SLR camera, she now works in cyanotypes and vandykes. From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK Shows: Cyanotypes, Polaroid transfers and Vandyke browns. Beverley signed up for evening classes, learnt to develop her own black and white films and prints and set up a darkroom in her … Read more

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