PLATINUM/PALLADIUM PRINTING
I spent last weekend in Victoria at an exciting workshop with Luz Gallery and instructor Dave Aharonian. Through a process of creating digitally enlarged negatives and contact printing them using the platinum/palladium process, it was a welcome return to traditional printing methods with breathtaking results. The fusion of modern and traditional tools in this process seems a logical hybrid for future work…I plan on incorporating this new process into my fine art work flow. Thanks again to Luz and Dave for the great weekend!
Here’s a few snaps from the darkroom…
Dave discusses the chemistry
Mix it up!
Applying the emulsion
Negative sandwich for contact printing
Into the contact printing frame
(looks like I got too excited here to photograph the exposure process in the light box)
Developing...
...and evaluating the print
And away we went printing our own work for the afternoon.
One of mine from the Pacific series...love.
