New Platinum Palladium print

Definitely falling more and more in love with this process and paper… Feels good to see something come to life which first was just an idea…

Work in progress

Platinum Palladium work print of the photograph named: “Sun (Son)” During the grey days I had the idea of photographing the sun when it was ready to come out again. So created some sunglasses for my camera from solar film and watercolour paper. Now it’s ready to print.

New print. New work. New process.

Happy to show a work print of new work I have been slowly but steadily creating.

In spring I entertained the idea in my head that I wanted to work in a different way and have more freedom. Self imposed rules that were only applied forcefully in my own head made me feel so restrained. I wanted go get out of that. So I started learning another process.

Platinum / Palladium it became. Saved up some money and an endless amount of patience. I build my own exposure unit. Gathered books and supplies. Even a brush from Japan.

Definitely not abandoning the silver process because I still love that. But everything has its time and place. No more self imposed restrictions of tools or process. The Dutch greyness we have this time of year also comes in handy. Who would have known…

The entirety of the project/ series will become more clear later.

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