Like a crazy game of chess, my heroes glide around in my head on a multicoloured board of abstract devices. Sally Mann moves like a…

Calotypes are my favorite way of making images with a camera. I have put calotype work on my back-burner for some time as I have…

I usually make about 20 prints onto glass before laying on the “gold” (or whatever) covering. Happily for me, I find just about all of…

All that glisters is not gold— Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold. Gilded…

Glop is the popular name for an emulsion used to coat the tissue used in carbon transfer or carbro printing. I make small batches with…

Cleaning and preparing glass is possibly one of the most important stages in any photographic process where the glass is used for a negative or…

I often make ambrotypes where I coat a black varnish directly on the collodion image and then view it the “right way round” through the…

Carbon transfer and carbro printing need “tissue”. This is a sheet of suitable material coated with gelatine containing a suitable pigment. Already this short description…

Fifty years ago I started working as a freelance photographer. Using Leica, Hasselblad, Nikon and Linhof cameras – usually ilford films, Kodak chemistry, strobe lights…