Mordancage water bath

Mordançage

Mordançage is considered by many to be a specialized, even secretive, alternative process. Through this process, the artist has the power to manipulate the print by physically lifting, repositioning, and securing the pure black portions of a black and white darkroom print. This magical alchemy helps add to the mystique and unique quality of this distinct process. Writer / Cara Lee Wade Photography / Cara Lee Wade, Ethan Ross, Holly … Read more

Forrest Zerbe Mordancage

Forrest Zerbe

Forrest Zerbe is a photography graduate, artists, educator and adventurer who uses the Mordançage process as an expression of his art. From: Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. Shows: Mordancage. As a child, adventure was Forrest Zerbe’s first priority. Days were spent in the woods near his family home in western Pennsylvania where he used his imagination and creativity to construct a world of adventure. Forrest’s college years were spent traveling the country looking to … Read more

Spiffy Tumbleweed

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

Megan Crawford

Megan Crawford

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

Dave Symonds

Dave Symonds

Dave Symonds is a retired Lighting Designer. He holds two Associateships and a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. From: Born in Birmingham England in 1948 and now living in Newton Stewart, Scotland. Shows: Bromoil, Mordancage, Oilprints, Photopolymer Gravure, Pinhole and Purell Transfer. Dave took up photography in 1985 with his main interest being in mono printing and colour slide work. His introduction to alternative photography came by accident in … Read more

Cara Lee Wade

Cara Lee Wade

North American photographers – South & Mid West
From: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
Shows: Mordancage, some with Oils and/or Watercolor added.
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Working in the Mordançage process

Elizabeth Opalenik learnt the Mordançage process from Jean-Pierre Sudre. She has since then changed it into her own variation. She shares her version of this beautiful process here.