Last of college work - hand in is on Thursday, just need to get all work mounted and an evaluation written for my mixed media work and an essay on photographers I chose. One photographer I chose was Anna Atkins as she was a woman doing this in the 19th century, I love alternative processes and wish I had more time to do them. The other photographer I chose was Wolfgang Tillmans simply because my reaction to the first image I saw of his was "WOW". I love his diversity and experimentation, I cannot even begin to emulate anything he does however I think about his work a lot. I also like that he isn't typecast as a certain kind of photographer.Thank you for all the lovely comments on the pinhole for yesterday.:)
Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric Ammonium Citrate solutions
exposed for 30 mins in UV unit
washed for 30 mins
It's actually a really simple process - one of the easiest alternative photographic methods. You can buy the 2 chemicals - Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric Ammonium Citrate- from a company called Silverprint (UK). They come in a powdered form and you mix up small quantities of each with water. You then combine the two liquids - this makes a light sensitive solution. Best to keep this dark, I just shove it in a drawer in my darkroom. You coat fairly strong paper ( lots of washing later) - I use Fabriano hot pressed as I don't want lots of texture. Leave this to dry or use a hairdryer if you're impatient. This doesn't need to be done in complete darkness as the chems are not highly sensitive. I do it in the darkroom with the door slightly open. When your paper is dry you put the object on top and either expose it in sunlight or if you have access to a UV unit all the better. As our weather is crap I bought a small unit. It's also more controllable . I exposed this for 30 mins then washed it for another 30 mins. What happens is the UV hardens the chemicals, however where light is blocked the chemicals remain unhardened and wash away. Hope this helps, if you ever want to try just ask for more details. It can also be done with digital negatives ( printed out on inkjet transparency). It's fun , simple and a great intro into alternative processes
Paul - it is kind of the same way - I did a photo stencil silkscreen last week and very similar principle :)
"It's actually a really simple process - one of the easiest alternative photographic methods. You can buy the 2 chemicals - Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric Ammonium Citrate- from a company called Silverprint (UK). They come in a powdered form and you mix up small quantities of each with water. You then combine the two liquids - this makes a light sensitive solution. Best to keep this dark, I just shove it in a drawer in my darkroom. You coat fairly strong paper ( lots of washing later) - I use Fabriano hot pressed as I don't want lots of texture. Leave this to dry or use a hairdryer if you're impatient. This doesn't need to be done in complete darkness as the chems are not highly sensitive. I do it in the darkroom with the door slightly open. When your paper is dry you put the object on top and either expose it in sunlight or if you have access to a UV unit all the better. As our weather is crap I bought a small unit. It's also more controllable . I exposed this for 30 mins then washed it for another 30 mins. What happens is the UV hardens the chemicals, however where light is blocked the chemicals remain unhardened and wash away. Hope this helps, if you ever want to try just ask for more details. It can also be done with digital negatives ( printed out on inkjet transparency). It's fun , simple and a great intro into alternative processes"
How is it that you are doing them, pliz to be informing us?!
Paul - it is kind of the same way - I did a photo stencil silkscreen last week and very similar principle :)
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