I was what you are, you will be what I am.

The relationship between how we present ourselves, ageing, the techniques I’ll use, media and form of presentation i.e. Lith printing, etching and the salted paper process have a parallel correlation. Ageing represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over time, encompassing physical, psychological, and social change. Ageing follows a biological timetable and includes internal and environmental cumulative damage. The salted prints will be stabilized but not fixed.  The Lith process has often been shrouded in mystery and described as “unduplicatable” with no two prints ever looking similar. It is a simple but “different” Black & White printing technique, using ordinary B&W or colour negatives, a suitable black & white paper and Lith developer – from which the process gets its name. The effect is caused by a phenomenon called infectious development, simply an un-regulated development of silver in the image by the developing agent. Infectious development provides an image of “normal” contrast. The developer is highly diluted and the paper is heavily over exposed. Shadows develop slowly but this development becomes quite quickly exponential. The print is removed when the shadows have reached the required density and quickly stopped, as the print will quickly turn black due to the massive over exposure. Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface, an accumulation of changes over time.

Etching (Intaglio, hardground, softground, aquatint, sugarlift and photograpic emulsion)

 

Lith Prints (Fomatone and Slavich photographic papers)

 

 Salted Prints (Alternative Photography)