After a break of several years, I’m returning to the darkroom to learn toning techniques. The photo was taken with a Minolta Autocord, printed on Ilford Art, first skin and table sepia toned, dress and pot coloured using Fotospeed palette toner blue without intensifier and then covered in resist while the print was submerged […]
aberdeen
I went to Aberdeen in 2007 with my partner at the time, to stay with her family. Funds had been exhausted in the move back to the UK, and it was a struggle for either of us to get our respective projects off the ground. The initial plan was to measure the Aberdeen stay in […]
visual record of seeing in the process of seeing
The two pictures in this post were, again, taken on the trip to Varanasi, India. Both are scenes from along the banks of the River Ganges. Although the trip was actually part of a journalism project, for which the photos needed to be content driven, the two photos here are of a different kind, taken […]
adding colours
There are many reasons why I choose to stick to black and white photography, among them the abstraction of the image, the connection to the history of photography, and the fact that I just like the aesthetic. Another, more prosaic, reason is the fact that I am by now very familiar with the process — […]
temple door
I’m finding these temple festivals increasingly difficult to find the enthusiasm to go to. The interest nowadays is purely photographic, and I don’t even lift the camera to my eye anymore unless the idea is new or, if it is similar to something I have already captured, an improvement on what I already have, or […]
toners
Started looking at toners. It’s complicated. Here we have sepia and copper. The sepia was added first (thiocarbamide), selectively. Sepia, I discovered, will prevent the copper taking. While the sepia only tones the silver in the image, the copper tones the whole paper except, in this case, where the sepia had been applied. I left […]