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Here you will find sites that exhibit the work photographers who use alternative methods of making photographic prints, including the use of alternative chemical processes, pinhole cameras, toy (or plastic lens) cameras, infrared film, Polaroid manipulation processes, and other non-conventional approaches. Photographers who specialize in one single method are listed in the appropriate subcategory, while those who work in more than one alternative approach are listed in this category.

Subcategories

• Infrared
• Pinhole
• Polaroid Processes

Resources in This Category

• Alexeev, Alexey

  http://www.ambrotype.ru/
  Photographer and researcher of alternative and historical photo processes. He was the first to learn the Wet-Plate Collodion Process in modern Russia and is using it at a professional level. Alexey uses handmade processes, large format cameras and vintage lens for his projects.

• Auerbach, Gary

  http://www.garyauerbach.com/
  Large format platinum photography. Portraiture, cityscapes, and Polaroid image transfers. Virtual Gallery, articles, how-to's, and links. Commissioned portraiture. Located in Old Hacienda Resort in Tucson Arizona.

• Baker, Francis

  http://www.francisbaker.com/
  Conceptual, alternative photography including cyanotype, van dyke brown and mixed media installations.

• Beresford, Alice

  http://www.aliceberesford.com/
  Techniques such as fabric prints and print out paper using 4x5 negatives. Based in Ireland, but gathers most of her material from travels abroad.

• Brown, L.S.

  http://members.tripod.com/greygarage/
  Polaroid transfers, handcoloring, and digital manipulation of L. S. King (formerly L.S. Brown).

• Casjens, Laurel

  http://www.lcphotography.com/
  Through wide angle lenses, toning, and solarization, photographer Laurel Casjens provides a unique perspective on stunning landscapes.

• Chernewski, Anita

  http://home.earthlink.net/~chernewski/
  A rich mixture of various alternative processes and approaches including Van Dyke, palladium, pinhole, cyanotype, and photograms along with silver gelatin.

• Chris, Morgan

  http://chmorgan.com/
  Gum bichromate close-ups of insects.

• Clement, Alain Gerard

  http://www.alainclement.com/
  The "Medici Chamber", a recent exhibit of photogenic drawings, plus a brief description of the process and a short resume of the artist.

• Cusak, Clayton

  http://www.claytoncusak.com/
  Conceptual gumoil and silver print still lives. Includes gallery, resume, and contact information.

• Daly, Jennifer Linnea

  http://www.jldalyphotography.com/
  Anthotypes and Solarplate prints. Environmentally conscious artmaking.

• Devlaeminck, André

  http://andre_devlaeminck.tripod.com/mainmenu.html
  Bromoil photos of Scotland, Belgium and France.

• Ferguson, Tom

  http://www.ferguson-photo-design.com/
  Platinum, palladium, and cyanotype still lifes.

• Gareis, Klaus-Martin

  http://www.gareis.com/
  Various alternative analog approaches including Lith, coloring and Bromoil

• Giudicelli, Jacqueline and Jean

  http://www.jgiudicelli.com/
  Practitioners of the gum bichromate process for the past 15 years.

• Gregory, Joy

  http://www.joygregory.co.uk/
  A combination of 19th century printing process with digital media. Includes projects, archives, press, and contact.

• Hall, Robert

  http://www.roberthall.com/
  19th Century processes such as platinum printing, Van Dykes, Cyanotypes. Infrared and lith processes, toned prints. Prints for sale, workshops, darkroom and field classes available.

• Holmes, Elizabeth

  http://www.elizabethjholmes.com/
  Infrared, handcolored, black and white photographs of rural landscapes, cityscapes, beachscapes, and nature.

• Jones, Christopher

  http://members.tripod.com/~crj/
  Diana camera, Polaroid transfers and SX-70, night and pinhole photography.

• Kennedy, David Michael

  http://www.davidmichaelkennedy.com/
  Fine art photographer working in platinum/palladium. Offers intensive master class workshops in platinum/palladium, landscape and portraits

• Klassen, Vince

  http://www.klassen.bc.ca/klassen/
  Historical platinum and palladium prints of commercial, editorial, wedding, and personal photography.

• Kouklis, Kerik

  http://www.kerik.com/
  Photographs in platinum/palladium, gum-bichromate over platinum and printing out paper (POP). Photography workshops.

• Kulick, Alex

  http://www.alexkulick.com/
  Portfolio of alternative, black and white, and color work. Includes landscapes, abstract imagery and people.

• Laughter, Gene

  http://www.alternativephotography.com/artists/gene_laughter.html
  An exhibit in bromoil transfer photographic process by one of the masters of this medium and author of "Bromoil 101" - a 'How-to' Manual.

• Lovenguth, Christopher

  http://www.christopherlovenguth.com/
  Daguerreotypes of recent works, portraits, and landscapes. Also includes information about the process.

• Mabrey, Billy

  http://www.billymabrey.com/
  Techniques for photographers or artists outlining the historical process of gum bichromate photography. Includes several examples of prints and other photography work.

• Madigan, Martha

  http://www.marthamadigan.com/
  Photograms and sun prints of natural things and human beings. Includes information on the process. [Shockwave plug-in required]

• Magruder, Matthew

  http://matthewmagruder.com/
  Personal website of Austin-based fine art photographer working in alternative process techniques.

• Mahbub, Farah

  http://farahmahbub.com/
  Architecture and landscape galleries with images from Iran and South Africa and a few from my hometown Karachi, Pakistan.

• Malcolm Hutcheson

  http://malcolmhutcheson.com/
  Traditional Ruh Khitch is a way in which black and white photographs can be taken, printed and sold to a client without a studio or darkroom.

• Mamone, Arrigo

  http://heliogravures.it/
  Italian artist and printmaker who works with historical and traditional photographic processes, mainly photogravure, gum and carbon processes.

• McAdam, Frank

  http://www.frank-mcadam.com/
  Site emphasizing pictorial and solarization techniques.

• McElrath, Steve

  http://www.threedollarchair.com/
  Platinum palladium photographs of the northwest and beyond.

• McMillan, Judith K

  http://www.judithkmcmillan.com/
  Using the X-Ray technique, McMillan photographs the internal structures of plants.

• Meyers, Steven N.

  http://www.xray-art.com/
  Fine art x-ray photography of nature. Includes technical information.

• Miller, Peter

  http://www.kamprint.com/
  Photogravure, etching, and other intaglio techniques. Includes selection of works with subject matter including seascapes, temples, winter gardens, Normandy, Umbria, Silk Road, and Mongolia.

• Miller, Siouxsan E.

  http://www.siouxsan.com/
  Photographs of doors, chairs, gardening, sewing, housework, leaves, teacups and sunflowers. Printed in cyanotype and gum bichromate on watercolor paper.

• Moers, Denny

  http://www.dennymoers.com/
  Uses fixative and natural elements to create dramatic and colorful images from black and white prints.

• Nanian, John

  http://www.nanianphoto.com/
  Documentary, portraiture, architectural/site/interior, handmade negatives, glass photographs, archival processing

• Palmer, Harry

  http://www.aportraitofcanada.ca/
  Images called tallpecs, created from photographs of Alberta and Saskatchewan in celebration of their centennials in 2005.

• Photogravure of Lothar Osterburg

  http://www.lotharosterburgphotogravure.com/
  Artist working with the 19th century process of photogravure, plate making, intaglio printing. He also teaches workshops in photogravure.

• Roberts, Mark D.

  http://www.markdroberts.net/
  Chemigrams and polaroids.

• Schurig, Carsten

  http://foto-cs.de/
  Gallery of Cyanotypes, mainly landscape, cityscape and architecture.

• Sloan, Victor

  http://www.victorsloan.co.uk/
  Irish artist who comments on various social, cultural and political issues, using photography, painting and collage.

• Soinio, Kari

  http://www.karisoinio.com/
  Works deal with the relationship of landscape and human body to identity. Techniques include reverse printing through paper negatives, out-of-focus photography, and documentary photography. In Finnish and English.

• Stephen Livick

  http://www.livick.com/
  Many gum bichromate murals of goddess Kali and yoganis from Calcutta, India. Murals of 'Mother Earth,' a work in progress, as well as articles and text relating to the work.

• Taibi, Angelo

  http://www.angelotaibi.it/
  Presents techniques such as bromoil, infrared, cyanotype, liquid emulsion, pyro development, and lith printing.

• Talman, Donna Hamil

  http://www.er3.com/donna/
  Using blue-toned cyanotype and brown-toned Van Dyke to transform her images.

• Truett, Meryl

  http://www.meryltruett.com/
  Award-winning hand-colored, Diana, pinhole, and alternative process Polaroid images of Nashville,TN, Savannah,GA, New York, Mexico, and other interesting places.

• Tuttie, Elizabeth

  http://photosplatinum.com/
  Large format platinum. Images of death, the self and landscapes.

• Veasey, Nick

  http://www.nickveasey.com/
  Photographer and film-maker Nick Veasey works with x-ray and scientific equipment to create unusual imagery to commission.

• Ware, Mike

  http://www.mikeware.co.uk/
  Galleries, discussions and resources for argyrotypes, cyanotypes, chrysotypes and platino-palladiotypes.

• Watts-Martinez, Kathryn

  http://www.solarimages.com/
  Argyrotype photography, digital negatives on hand coated water color paper, iron based argyrotype chemistry and hand coloring many of the subjects.

 

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