The Details
I work primarily in Platinum and Cyanotype and experiment with making multiple passes, mixing two processes on a single print.
Each print is unique because the emulsions are hand-coated. They are all contact prints, meaning the negatives are made as large as the final print and exposed in a UV light box. In the case of cyanotype, turn-of-the-century biologists used the sun to expose their in-the-field photograms to document plant samples they found. Some wrote notes about their exposures, as well as sun position and the clouds in the sky, on the prints themselves. I imagine these early pioneers and wish my process was a bit more romantic. Through trial and error, I found accurate exposure times in my studio with my controlled UV light box.
