Around 1904, the first real artistic movement within photography emerged: Pictorialism. This movement offered an alternative to the often unimaginative work of professional photographers. Pictorialists worked with historical printing techniques involving gelatin, chemicals, paints, tampon brushes and rollers. This created prints with a unique, painterly character-always surprising and unpredictable.
In my work, I embrace these traditional techniques to add a personal, artisanal signature to my prints. I take my shots with a technical camera (4 x 5 inch / 8 x 10 inch flat film) or a camera obscura of the same size. I then work with two classic processes:
Bromoil (broomoil, c. 1900): a combination of paint and silver gelatin barite paper.
Cyanotype (c. 1804): an oxidation process on Japanese paper, creating a characteristic blueprint (Prussian blue).
My collection consists of 8 x 10-inch bromoil prints and 28 4 x 5-inch cyanotypes. By combining these timeless techniques with my own vision, I create photographic art that bridges past and present.