Jill Enfield

NORDphotography’s creative center SAGA in Rural Norway

Elisabeth Aanes, the making of NORDphotography and leaving her day job

Elisabeth Nordeng Aanes runs NORDphotography with a calm determination shaped by experience, risk, and care. 1.5 hours north of Trondheim, Norway, she has created a place where photography unfolds slowly, in dialogue with the landscape, weather, and human presence. The surroundings, open water, shifting skies, forests, and cold light, are not incidental. They shape how artists see, think, and work. At the heart of this environment is SAGA Center for … Read more

Art and Artist is published for our 25th anniversary on the 8th of April 2025

Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 2

Alternative Photography, Art and Artists, Edition 1. The hardback version.

Jill Enfield On Alternative Photography and Her Passion for Teaching

Writer / Jon Wollenhaupt Photography / Jill Enfield and Joe McNally Jon Wollenhaupt interviews the alternative photographic processes veteran Jill Enfield and talks about her new book Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques. Alternative photography pioneer Jill Enfield comes from a long line of photographers dating back to 1875—the date when her ancestors opened up gift stores in Germany where they sold cameras and … Read more

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

Ceramics and photography – a beginning

Many alternative photographic processes can be used to print on ceramics and clay. In this excerpt from “Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes”, Jill shows us how to print Pyrofoto, Laser Transfers, Gum bichromates, Cyanotypes, Silkscreen PhotoEZ and Phototransfer onto different surfaces.