Alternative Photographic Process Symposium 2027 is designed to create an understanding of various processes, opening up new ideas, ways of working, expressing and presenting your work. Speakers: Key Note Speaker: Bob Carnie – Silvershack (Toronto, Canada) Speakers: Jane Brown : Danielle Edwards: Gale Spring: Ellie Young: Chris Reid: Alex Bond More to follow: The (more…)
SALT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: the two processes are closely aligned not only in the history of photography but in the practice of creating these two most beautiful processes. ABOUT THE SALT PRINT: This is a simple process with a number of challenges to master. Salt prints are created by coating paper in a solution of (more…)
ABOUT THE ARGYROTYPE PRINT: This ‘user-friendly’ iron-based silver printing process was devised in 1996 by Mike Ware, using an unusual salt – silver sulphamate in a ‘single-bottle’ sensitiser solution with a long shelf-life. The resulting purplish-brown print of nanoparticle silver has a finer gradation than the traditional iron-silver processes, (more…)
ABOUT PLATINIUM AND PALLADIUM PRINTING: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal, exquisitely graduated in tones of neutral grey or warm sepia, with a beguiling luminosity in the high values. This modernized version provides a (more…)
Four Colour Carbon ABOUT THE CARBON PROCESS The carbon process, initially a black-and-white process using lampblack (carbon black), was invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855. The process was later adapted to color, through the use of pigments, by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron in 1868. Carbon photographs were the (more…)
ABOUT PLATINIUM/PALLADIUM PRINTING AND GUM BICHROMATE: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal. Gum bichromate printing over palladium or platinum photographs is an effective method of using colour to built depth to enrich shadow areas. The processes are made for each other, (more…)
PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON FABRIC The workshop allows you to create photographs on natural fibres, cotton, linen and silk with a surprising clarity. It provides the following advantages over paper: Movement – especially silks Can be stretched onto a frame Wearable – cyanotype can be (more…)
ABOUT CARBON PRINTING The carbon printing process uses colour pigments producing one of the the most permanent coloured photographs. The use of pigment allows any colour photograph on almost any surface. The beautiful tonal scale resolves fine detail. It relies upon the (more…)
ABOUT PLATINIUM AND PALLADIUM PRINTING: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal, exquisitely graduated in tones of neutral grey or warm sepia, with a beguiling luminosity in the high values. This modernized version provides a (more…)
ABOUT GUM BICHROMATE OVER CYANOTYPE: Printing gum bichromate images over cyanotype creates totally permanent image. Gum bichromate over cyanotype adds colour creating a painterly effect. This process begins by creating a standard cyanotype print, and then an additional layer of a gum bichromate solution (containing gum arabic, pigment, and (more…)
