Papers for chrysotype
Christina Z. Anderson gives us her best tips for chrysotype papers. If you want to learn more about Chrysotypes, there…
Creating multi-coloured cyanotype prints – Out of the Blue – the world appears in colour
Cyanotype is a easily accessible process with one limitation. It’s blue. Unless you know how to create multi-coloured cyanotypes. Here is how. Writer and photography / Jo Bind with tricolour section by Sehera Nawaz It was literally out of the blue when I first saw a post by Annette Golaz on the cyanotype Facebook group in early 2021 which showed … Read more
Mary Kocol
Mary Kocol is an art photographer and Massachusetts Master Gardener. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and now lives and works as a museum photographer near Boston, Massachusetts. See her work here. From: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA Shows: Anthotypes and Solargrams Mary Kocol studied photography at University of Connecticut and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the Rhode … Read more
Mitsuka Uemura
Mitsuka Uemura is a Japanese Photographer and Lithprint artist. He started to teach himself photography, and he has been using the Lith Printing process since 2002. From: Japan. Lives: Vilnius, Lithuania. Shows: Lith prints. Mitsuka Uemura’s work was exhibited in group and solo shows, in Japan, UK and Lithuania. In 2019, he received a ‘Letter of Appreciation’ from the Government … Read more
Hand Colored Gum Prints: When Art and Economics Collide
Whether to save money, time, or to explore creative options in your art, hand colored gum bichromate prints might just be the answer. Writer and photography / Peter J. Blackburn I have always loved film. My first roll was purchased back in 1970. To this very day, almost all of my gum and casein prints begin as a film captured … Read more
Darkroom variations for the classic cyanotype
Paolo Saccheri tests different variations of citric acids, washing and printing variables for the cyanotype process and shares his results with us. Please note that this is for the advanced cyanotyper. If you are a beginner, please start with Cyanotype – the classic process. Writer and photography / Paolo Saccheri Paper white and citric acid variations for cyanotypes Normally, when … Read more
Photography rebus 10
Rebus! Can you figure out the word? I can’t think of an alt. proc. that does not use this. Comment below (no cheating looking at the comments now!)
We're all about historical photographic methods in use today - the art, processes and techniques of alternative photography
