Finding plants and pigments for making anthotypes
An excerpt from Anthotypes – Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants. Plants suitable for making anthotypes and where to get them.
sustainable photography
Bladderwrack seaweed developer for black and white film
Seaweed developer offers an alternative to using store-bought developer and is very similar to the Caffenol-C film development process. This developer is designed for black and white film, with 400 ISO. Melanie King developed this recipe as part of the Sustainable Darkroom online residency, with the London Alternative Photography Collective. Writer and photography / Melanie King Developing with a seaweed developer is more sustainable than shop-bought developer. As with all foraging, … Read more
Chlorophyll printing and pigments
Chlorophyll printing is a sustainable photographic process using plants and pigments to develop a print or a cameraless photogram. We are looking for someone to write a new step-by-step how-to. You? Email talk@alternativephotography.com Writer and photography / TBD In the meantime, here is some reading for you: The chlorophyll process Chlorophyll prints – nature expresses itself How to preserve Chlorophyll prints And also be sure to see some great … 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
Organic photography
Clive Heritage-Tilley describes some unusual photographic applications using chemistry pioneered by Sir John Herschel.