Malin Fabbri is the editor and founder of AlternativePhotography.com, author of several books on alternative photographic processes, and experiments with a variety of techniques such as anthotypes, cyanotypes, photopolymer gravure, chlorophyll prints, lumens, cyanograms, photosynthesis, pinholes and solargraphs.
From: Stockholm, Sweden
Shows: Anthotypes, cyanotypes, wet cyanotypes, photopolymer gravure, chlorophyll prints, pinholes, solargraphs, lumens, chemilumens, cyanolumens, phytograms, vertotypes, chemigrams, watergrams
Malin Fabbri grew up in Sweden and moved to London in her early twenties to study. She earned an M.A. in Design at Central St. Martin’s School of Design, but publishing her thesis felt more like a beginning than an end. Malin decided to combine her academic and practical experience and started AlternativePhotography.com in 2000. The website still maintains its origins as a source of information and research on alternative photographic processes and now represents almost 400 artists. Malin actively manages the expansion of the site as editor. She researches alternative photographic processes, makes prints, and runs workshops.
Malin has also worked professionally with major media names such as Time magazine and CNBC Europe. She is the co-author of From Pinhole to Print and editor of the alternative photography art book Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 1, representing 115 artists working in alternative photographic processes. Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 2 was launched for the 25th anniversary of AlternativePhotography.com in 2025. To show the creative width of alternative processes the book Pure Inspiration was also made.
Apart from writing Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight, which remains the only book dedicated to the anthotype process, she has authored Blueprint to Cyanotypes – Exploring a Historical Alternative Photographic Process. She also compiled Anthotype Emulsions, Volumes 1-3 – the collective research from photographers on World Anthotype Day 2022–2024, each featuring contributions from hundreds of artists.
World Anthotype Day, a global event where artists collectively research anthotype emulsions, is another initiative started by Malin. She has a strong interest in all alternative processes and now lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, with her two sons, Maximillian and Ruben.
“As the editor of Alternative Photography.com, cyanotype is a natural choice, since it is a great teaching tool and a means of expressing creativity. Other processes I favor working in are anthotypes, photo polymer and gum bichromates.”
More about Malin:
In the press:
- WE ARE – The RPS Women in Photography Magazine, issue 10, March 2025 – Big feature!
- Review of “Pure Inspiration, Volume 1” in the Hand Magazine #46, 2024 by Adam Finkelston
- Interview with Malin Fabbri in The Hand Magazine issue 40, May 2023
- Interview in Silvergrain Classics, issue #17, Winter 2022
- Interview with Malin Fabbri in Cameradiere camera clubs newsletter September 2021, see page 20-21.
Social media:
- Instagram and Threads: @malin.fabbri.photo
- BlueSky: @malinfabbri.bsky.social
Malin Fabbri is also featured in, and author or editor of:
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Hi Hillary,
My advice and strong recommendation is to stay away from poisonous plants.
Pick another one! 🙂
Malin
Hello,
I just came upon your work and it is so inspiring! I’m looking forward to diving into the many layers. In the meantime, I’ve researched using Brugmansia to make natural dyes, pigments, or alternative processes in general but come up pretty empty-handed, possibly due to the potentially lethal character of the plant?!
If ever you have any insights I’m all ears!
Thanks very much,
Hillary
@Merle Thank you. No not right now, I’m far too busy running the website to squeeze in courses too… maybe in the future!
Malin, I love your painted photographs. Do you run a course in this?