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My photographic work ranges from digital images to alternative processes printed with a salt water solution on watercolour paper.
I am particularly interested in black and white and older and alternative processes, especially where this allows me to introduce inconsistencies to each print. |
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Limited Duration
This project allows me to play with the idea of scarcity in a medium (digital photography) that seemingly offers unlimited reproduction.
Every month I will post an image which will have a limited print run (five prints), and only be available to buy during the month it is posted.
So for instance on 1 February I will post January's image which will be available until the 28th (so if you want January's print you'll have to be faster than in some other month with more days).
Once the purchase month ends, that image will never be printed again (even if fewer than five were sold).
Prints are £20 (plus shipping) for an 8 x 10 inch print, hand printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper and include a mount so you can put it into a standard 10 x 12 inch frame.
I’ll be sending the prints out after I’ve received all the orders at the end of the month, so there is a little delayed gratification involved!
The prints will be made to order, so if only two people order them only two prints will be made.
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Alternative Process
Salt printing was one of the first way that photographs were printed and was used by Henry Fox Talbot and others of the era (like Hill and Adamson who are worth a look but used other printing methods as well). The good part about salt printing is that you can do it at home in only semi-darkness and with only a handful of toxic chemicals.
I use the book Spirit of Salts by Randall Webb and Martin Reed which is well written and has good examples of both historical and contemporary works using the methods they give. The book doesn’t just cover salt printing, but gives 20 or so other methods, some more complicated than others.
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