Rebecca Barfoot

I really enjoy Barfoot's use of not only the cyanotype medium but then drawing on and outlining more. She also does a lot of work with cyanotype involving the creation of false scenes by overlaying different thing with negatives on the cyanotype.

Check out more of her work here.

Brenton Hamilton

Hamilton's style of work includes mixing numerous medias such as gum arabic washes, gold and silver leaf, and white gouache. His images are composed of mostly acquired photos that deal with the human anatomy, astronomy, botany, and ancient Greece and Rome. I think that the cyanotype process gives his images a timeless look that works well for the subject matter. I was mostly drawn to his work, though, by how seamlessly he matches up the parts to make the whole. While I can tell they are a collage of images, the style in which he prepares the collage makes it work as a singular image.

Candace Makowichuk

In her series Generations III, Makowichuk uses the cyanotype process on fabric and paper, using images of the different generations of her family, including her children, her and her siblings, her parents and her grandparents. I find it interesting that she is using this historical photo process with familial images.

Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman (cyanotype)

     These artist work with both digital and alternative process techniques such as cyanotypes.  They integrated portraits of woman with a layering of cyanotype on top of them.  This body of work is called Natural History and it talks about the ripeness of their years. Im really interested in their mixed media and how they took two processes and made it one simple elegant image of these "busts" of women.

Gail Erwin

Artist: Gail Erwin

This artist uses the cyanotype process to capture contrasts of Vietnam. I appreciate how the artist focuses on texture and pattern in the work. She is blending new and old process and subject matter.

http://www.erwinarts.com/erwinarts/Gallery/Gallery.html

Matt Shapoff

Matt Shapoff creates cyanotype scarves that he then sells online.  This interests me because you have the ability to create cyanotype images on any surface that will absorb light sensitive material. When I create cyanotypes I may try to think out of the box and see what other materials I can incorporate into my concept.

Michel Herin

Michel Herin

I chose Michel Herin because I like the wide variety of subjects that he shoots. I am also interested in his variation of frames that he creates using the cyanotype process. I especially like the middle image because of how light the whole image is.

EMMA POWELL uses alternative processing to further articulate personal narratives, which are often both nightmare and fantasy. The series, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter are cyanotype prints toned with tea and wine to produce a range of additional warmer tones, making them seem more natural. "I choose these substances for the acidic effect on the chemistry, as well as their influence on communication and memory."

"Although photography is normally considered a medium that represents the present, visible world, in my work I attempt to make visual what cannot be seen in place or time."

Robert A. Schaefer Jr

Robert A. Schaefer Jr. has a series of cyanotypes mostly exhibiting architecture.

Cyanotype based photogtapher: Elizabeth Graves

I enjoyed these cyanotypes because of the saturation within the prints. The images of plants and the bra are my favorite because of the texture that is conveyed. Especially, in the last image how the mesh inside is so detailed and has such great dimension.

Fritz Liedtke

Hand-printed by the artist Fritz Liedtke, a select few of her limited edition set of photogravures
I chose Fritz originally because I was so drawn into the stunning images and highlighted features and details of the subject's faces. After I read into her I am very much interested in experiencing this process of alternative printing so I'm able to make beautiful portraits while also detaching myself from the retouching technology I use often, and really appreciating each print for it's one of a kind blemishes/"beauty marks"

"While many people view freckles as an aberration or blemish, my response is the opposite. I find them enchanting, unique, even exotic. More than once, while photographing for this series, a model thanked me for making something beautiful out of what they often viewed as a flaw." -Fritz

This is Rachel Curtis, she in these images she has made kitchen appliances into pinhole cameras. For these pieces she used a refrigerator pinhole, and the one above is a pinhole within a toaster oven.   

Courtney Johnson

I found Courtney super relevant seeing as she's coming to Candela this weekend. Her (beautiful) use of multiple alternative processes stands out to me and adds a painterly attribute to her work.

Kerik Kouklis

I was immediately drawn to Kouklis's portraits on his website, primarily because of the straightforwardness of his subjects mixed with the black and white, alternative process to create something old-looking, and blurry, but at the same time sharp and modern-looking with modern subjects. Some of his subjects you can tell Kouklis is going for the bizarre factor with because he has them in contorted positions, or with masks on. He created them by using a wet plate collodian technique, and a medium format camera. In his artist statement, he says that he tries to mix modern-day photography with 19th century processes so that the result is unique. He makes primarily platinum and palladium prints and also uses gum bichromate which he says gives his photos amazing depth.

Rebecca Harbaugh

Gumoil Print

Cyanotype 

Gum Bichromate 

Rebecca Harbaugh uses a variety of different processes in her work and it almost seems as if she chooses which process to use based upon the the image she is using for the print.

davide rossi

Davide Rossi is an italian photographer who uses alternative processing techniques to create images such as these cyanotypes. I picked Davide Rossi because I think his prints are beautifully crisp and his subject matter is interesting. He shoots mostly portraits and has experience with salt prints, cyanotypes, van dykes, ambrotypes, and gum bichromates.