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Platinotype book by Pradip Malde and Mike Ware

Platinotype by Pradip Malde and Mike Ware

Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process is the complete book on Platinotypes with the work of 40 artists using the platinotype. Read the interview with the authors Pradip Malde and Mike Ware. Photography / Pradip Malde, Mike Ware and Rachel Malde. This volume is the ninth in the Routledge Alternative Process series, edited by Christina Z. Anderson and published by Routledge. Pradip Malde interviewed … Read more

Figure 13: Assembly Pins into the paper Registration Strips

Gum print registration

Instructions to register gum prints. Gum bichromate printing requires multiple pass to get the right density both for black and white and color prints. Here is how. Writer and photography / Andrea Baldi A reliable registration system is helpful to get multiple layers of the gum prints that do not show any misalignment in the different passes. For example, when you expose the second layer in a black & white … Read more

An intaglio press in Hervé Sachy's studio.

Chrome free Copperplate photogravure process

Hervé Sachy has been working with Copper photogravure etchings for over 40 years, but was, due to the ban of dichromate forced to find a new way to do etchings. This resulted in a chrome free copper photogravure process – better for both the artist and the environment. Writer and photography / Hervé Sachy Hervé Sachy, who has lived in the South of France for the last 40 years, learned … Read more

camera obscura pinhole camera image inside a room

Easily create a camera obscura

Nancy Breslin tests a camera obscura lens from the Finnish company called Bonfoton and turns an entire room into a camera obscure, reflecting the outside upside down on her wall and also recorded a video to show us. Writer and photography / Nancy Breslin ONLY FOR OUR READERS! A discount on ALL Bonfoton products from their website. The code is ALT20 and they will give a -20% discount until the … Read more

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Valley of the Livet Photogram Stephen McNeill

Photograms – a magical concept

A photogram is a unique cameraless art form that involves the placement of objects onto sensitised paper with the action of light. Stephen McNeill shares his experiences with this age-old process, along with some images and tips. Writer and photography / Stephen McNeill An introduction to the photogram The technique of creating a photographic image without the use of a camera is as old as photography itself. Commonly referred to … Read more

Interview with pinhole photographer Edward Levinson

Nancy Breslin’s interview with photographer Edward Levinson, with the focus on pinholes and his digital pinhole project Spots of Light in Tokyo. Writer Nancy Breslin, photography / Edward Levinson Nancy Breslin: When students are introduced to pinhole photography it is often in the form of black and white paper negatives created in homemade cameras. Visitors to www.edophoto.com will see that you have a number of distinctive pinhole series that go … Read more

print by yago de orbe klingenberg in the chlorophyll process

Chlorophyll prints – nature expresses itself

Chlorophyll prints by Yago de Orbe Klingenberg are high quality and beautiful, step by step he shows how he achieves this result. Writer and photography / Yago de Orbe Klingenberg About Yago de Orbe Klingenberg’s Chlorophyll prints: “My work is immersed both, in the Amazonian indigenous cosmovision and in the origins of photography, allowing nature to express itself: plants reveal their vital force in pictures where we can apreciate our … Read more

Summer rain, Christina Z. Anderson, Gum bichromate

All That and a Bag of Doritos – Christina Z. Anderson and the Impact of Imperfect Paths

Megan Crawford’s portrait of Christina Z. Anderson. Writer / Megan Crawford Photography / Kelsey Merritt, Christina Z. Anderson, Kelly Gorham, Megan Crawford Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi? Maybe she meant to say wasabi, but that doesn’t make sense. Nope, wabi-sabi: the Japanese view of beauty in imperfection— literally the art of imperfection. I first learned about wabi-sabi in a photography darkroom at Montana State University, standing by a tray of chemistry that wafted … Read more

World Cyanotype Day – 265 artists in WCD 2020!

WOW!!! WCD 2020 consisted of 265 artists from 50 countries sending in their work. We NEVER expected so many entries! WCD 2020 has been a truly worldwide event. The youngest person is 5 and the oldest (we know of) approaching 80. We’ve been adding work for a week now, Day and night, and you can see all the wonderful work here: 👉 The WCD 2020 Gallery: https://www.alternativephotography.com/gallery/gallery-by-process/world-cyanotype-day-2020/ If you completely … Read more

World Cyanotype Day, 26th september – Let’s make it the BIGGEST EVER!

The 26th September 2020 is World Cyanotype Day and here are the artists and photographers that have entered a cyanotype on this year’s theme “Interconnected”. Enter your work in the gallery: www.alternativephotography.com/gallery/gallery-by-process/world-cyanotype-day-2020/ Take part in World Cyanotype Day 2020 To enable everyone who is isolated we offer a digital gallery here, don’t hesitate to enter! Read more about physical locations here. Do make our lives a little easier by following … Read more

Calvin Grier “Peony” Neutral tone Carbon Print Double Transfer

Calvin Grier – a master carbon printer and teacher

Anthony Mournian’s portrait of Calvin Grier a master carbon printer, from starting a Carbon printing service, his art and his eBook “Calibration for Alternative Photographic Processes” where we learn to calibrate prints. Writer and photography / Anthony Mournian Photography / Calvin Grier, Daniel Hall, Radka Tezaur, Rafael Rojas, Michael Strickland, Arun Patel, Angus Parker, Andres Lopez, Levon Biss, Alexander Nalivaev, Lena Bushart In the timespan of well over a century … Read more

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

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Wagner Lungov's UV solar exposure meter B

UV printing using sunlight – with total control

Using sunlight as a light source when printing can give unpredictable results. Wanger Lungov explains how a UV exposure meter can help when printing for example Van Dyke Brown, Cyanotype, Gum Bichromate and anthotypes. Writer and photography / Wagner Lungov Most of us probably started in Alternative Photography printing processes using sunlight. More than often that was in a school or community activity and just for the sake of curiosity … Read more

F-SAP 1.33 Table f-stop exposure times

Writer and photography / Gerard Smeets Gerard Smeets shares with us a table with f-stop related exposure times between 1 and 64 minutes plus the manual for this table. The table is also available to download. Finding the standard exposure time In many manuals of alternative processes, there is a text like this: ‘make a test strip with 8 times at an interval of 4 minutes, starting with 4 minutes’. … Read more

Handpainted negative process by Ronni Mae Knepp

Watercolor painted negatives process

Writer and photography / Ronni Mae Knepp Ronni Mae Knepp paints her negatives to create a mix between photography and painting. She shares here Painted Negative process here. The Watercolor painted negative process My process is pretty straight forward. I shoot 4×5 Black and White Ilford HP5 film and develop the sheet film. I use a flat lightbox and place a sheet of clear transparency over it to protect the … Read more

A Gum Printer’s Nightmare: Paper Potholes

Peter J. Blackburn wrestles with the constant quality changes of art papers and discovers a surprise choice for gum printing. Writer and photography / Peter J. Blackburn “They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.” —Ernest Dowson After more than thirty years of gum printing, I am still dumbfounded by the perpetually … Read more

Herbal developers

Plant-based developers have been used for many years, in this article General Treegan shares 3 different herb and plant-based developers that can be used to develop silver gelatin negatives. Writer and photography / General Treegan [born as Andrés Pardo] Herbalism is botany applied to medicine. It comprises the extractive use of medicinal plants or their derivatives for therapeutic purposes, often for the prevention or treatment of pathologies. Herbalism holds a … Read more

Build a UV led box for cyanotypes

Gavin Lyons shows how to make a Cyanotype image with a UV LED box. Cyanotypes are traditionally developed in sunlight, but in the winter the UV light isn’t so strong and readily available. Here is how to make a Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown or Salt Papers at any time during the year. Writer and photography / Gavin Lyons This box will produce an A3 or A4 size cyanotype print just … Read more

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