Photography and Archive Research Centre portraits in gum, salted paper & cyanotype

PARC MEMBERS PORTRAITS IN TECHNIQUES PRESENT IN THEIR COLLECTION

PARC commissioned a creative project in response to their photographic collection, 5 portraits of its members were to be shot in historic photographic processes.

THE PROCESS

• Session took about 3.5h and studio portraits were taken on location

• Digital negatives were produced and printed using different 19th century processes: gum, cyanotype, salted paper prints

• Exhibition featuring the portraits took place at

  LCC PARC gallery

SALTED PAPER PRINTS,GUM BICHROMATE PRINTS, CYANOTYPES

Salted paper process-developed by Henry Fox Talbot in 1841.

• Digital negatives were produced and printed using light sensitive paper and sunlight:

  It started with picking the right paper from the process that is then coated with table salt, light sensitive silver and exposed to sun light. Processing takes place in the darkroom. Each print would take about 3h from start to finish.