Cyanotype Prints

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide.

While originally developed in the early 1840s for use in blueprints, the process was later used as a method for documenting plant life, in what would become known as a photogram, where specimens were placed directly onto coated paper and using sunlight to 'charge' the paper, creating a silhouette effect. This led to the practice of placing glass ambrotype photographs (negative image) onto the coated paper to create beautiful blue photographs. Cyanotype photography was very popular in Victorian England during the later half of the 19th century.

All of my cyanotype prints are individually processed on hand-coated sheets of Revere Platinum 320gsm cotton rag; an outstanding quality acid-free archival paper. These prints will be available as individual signed originals and also high-luster poster prints.

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