Chance & Control in Film Photography
with Scott McMahon & Ahmed Salvador In a world where the art of photography often adheres to meticulous planning and staging, Scott...
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Alternative Processes
- Sep 3
- 4 min
Psychology of Darkroom Printing
Darkroom printing is a heady mix of technical precision, creative intuition, and psychological fortitude, offering a distinctive...
Alternative Processes
- Jul 28
- 9 min
From Darkroom Waste to Jewellery
with Charlotte E Padgham Could you tell us about your exploration of repurposing exhaust photo chemicals in your sculptures and jewelry?...
Alternative Processes
- Jul 19
- 3 min
Mordançage: Transforming Prints & Altering Realities
Our latest blog post takes you on a step-by-step journey through the art of Mordançage printing
Alternative Processes
- Jul 12
- 4 min
Liquid Emulsion Glass Sculptures
with Juliette Leperlier Your work explores the intersection of alternative photography and glass through photo- sculptures. Can you walk...
Alternative Processes
- Jun 20
- 5 min
Cyanotype on Wood
with Laurie Beck Peterson 1) Your series "We All Fall Down" combines cyanotype with wood stumps, creating bold tridimensional pieces. ...
Alternative Processes
- May 31
- 5 min
Site-Specific Cyanotype: Creation to Installation with Jonathan Kay
Your large-scale cyanotype artworks, such as Negative Mass, are site-specific installations that engage with the environment. Could you...
Alternative Processes
- May 28
- 4 min
Wet Plate Collodion
Wet plate collodion, a photographic process that emerged in the mid-19th century, holds a unique place in the history of photography....
Alternative Processes
- May 18
- 5 min
AI & Alternative Processes: can there be synergy?
Mathieu Stern AI cameras In the ever-evolving world of photography, traditional darkroom processes hold a special place. The alchemy of...
Alternative Processes
- May 17
- 6 min
Printing with mud
With Lucas Leffler Back in Paris in April 2021, I discovered a small festival dedicated to unique prints. During my visit of the a ppr oc...
Alternative Processes
- Mar 25
- 5 min
Film Soup
with Hanna from HANALOGITAL Could you please explain a little bit about how film soup works? When 35mm film is placed in various liquids...
Alternative Processes
- Feb 26
- 2 min
How to make a digital negative
the easiest possible way Mathieu Stern There are several alternative processes techniques that we always talk about that have one step in...
Alternative Processes
- Jan 29
- 3 min
Lumen Prints
David Arnold, Morning Glories Lumen prints date back to the first days of photographic cameras when William Henry Fox Talbot experimented...
Alternative Processes
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
Gum Bichromate in a few words
Gum Bichromate is a contact printing method invented in 1855. Compared to other contact printing methods like cyanotype and platinum...
Alternative Processes
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Seeing Double
The wonders of double exposure Double exposure by Michael Lewis Before there was Photoshop and its transparency and layers tools,...
Alternative Processes
- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
Notes on the colour blue
with photography historian Elisabeth Scheder-Bieschin I’ve been making cyanotypes for a few years now. I love the simplicity of the...
Alternative Processes
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
Beyond Anthotype’s, how to connect and print with nature
Hannah Fletcher is an artist, photographer, and innovator of sustainable alternative photographic practices. Hannah is a co-director of the
Alternative Processes
- Oct 12, 2022
- 6 min
5 Camera-less low cost techniques
(and 3 easy ones that involve a camera) In our previous blog post we covered how to build a darkroom from scratch on a budget. But let’s...
Alternative Processes
- Sep 25, 2022
- 4 min
FILM INFLATION
“Stay broke, shoot film” has never been as true as lately. Once upon a time, you could buy a roll of Kodak Color Plus 200, or Fujifilm...
Alternative Processes
- Sep 9, 2022
- 4 min
The negative in Photography
and how to create a digital one The roofline of Lacock Abbey in 1835 – printed in 2008. Fox-Talbot/Sugimoto Some thoughts on the negative...
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