About The Processes

When working in the field I use a large format wooden field camera to make my negatives, which yields a negative 4 x 5 inches in size. Every once in a while I will use a mamiya RZ67 which still give me a fairly large negative to work with, measuring 6 x 7 cm. Color images are sent off to a lab to be developed while black and white images are hand processed by myself. All images are processed to the highest archival standards.

Black and White

The black and white images seen here on this site are all made the traditional, old fashioned way using only light, film, paper, and chemicals. They are all made one by one, very meticulously by myself in the darkroom. Each black and white image is printed on a silver gelatin fiber based paper. This process has been around for decades and has proven to be the most archival method available, making them last for generations.

Color

Everyone of my color images are made using a lightjet printer, which uses red, green, and blue lasers to expose the image onto Fuji Crystal Archive paper. The image is first scanned at a very high resolution with a drum scanner, which gives me every single detail that had been recorded in the negative to work with. I can then edit the image to dodge, burn, and adjust for color and contrast. Nothing is artificially added or taken out. These prints go through a traditional “wet” photographic chemical process and are made to last for decades.