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, cyanotype, Van Dyke, palladium, carbon printing, and wet plate collodion. Using antique and self-made film cameras and equipment in various formats (from medium to large format and panoramic), he seeks to make unique prints which match his images to the beauty and elegance of the selected photographic process.
He currently leads the Handmade Photo Practice and teaches at Photoworks at Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, Maryland, USA and also teaches elsewhere. He exhibits widely and is represented in collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress.
“An artist is someone who cannot not do their art.”
More about Mac Cosgrove-Davies:
- Contact email: Gummist (at) gmail.com
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World Anthotype Day
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