The platinum/palladium print can be a beautiful and everlasting image with exceptional depth. I create my prints from digital negatives. The negatives must be the same size as the final image to create the contact print. The negatives are created in Photoshop using a process developed by Mark Nelson (precisiondigitalnegatives.com) and printed on a transparency film. The negatives are then used to handcraft a print by hand coating an art paper with a platinum/palladium solution, exposing the sensitized paper to ultra-violet light, and then hand processing the exposed paper to create the final print. No two prints are ever identical.

The platinum/palladium print making process was invented in the 1870s. The light sensitized iron salts on the coated paper are replaced by platinum/palladium during the process creating the final image. The digital negatives that I use are becoming more prevalent in creating contact prints. I use both platinum and palladium for the images that I create. The entire process to create my images uses technologies that span the past three centuries.

My Prints

• Negatives are printed on Pictorico OHP using and Epson 3800 printer
• Images are printed on either Arches Platine, Magnani Revere Platinum or Bergger COT-320 art paper