About
This place houses some of the photographs I make that pass at some point through a traditional – some say analogue – wet process. Nowadays, the conventional printing of negatives onto light-sensitive paper is already considered ‘alternative’. I treat this site as a kind of diary of my activity in this area. Sometimes the images posted will be successes, sometimes not so successful. Some may end up in the wastebasket – what Tim Rudman calls ‘the learning bin’.
The images here may be straightforward silver-gelatin prints from film negatives, others may be toned or alternatively-processed prints made by contact printing pigment-based negatives derived from digital image files*. One thing is for sure, each finished image has spent part of its gestation period bathed in chemical solutions.
Once upon a time, all photography was done this way.
Thanks for stopping by.
Roy Hammans
*For a description of the process I use to create digital negatives, please see the article on my main site.