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Intaglio
Digital photography has many advantages. You can instantly create an image and get it exactly the way you want it. However, the element of surprise, which was always there in the analog times, is no longer there.
For this reason I started to look for a way to print my photographs in a non-digital manner, so I can still get a lot of surprises. This technique, intaglio or polymer etching, leads my images in a whole new direction. In fact I complete a circle. In art school I studied graphic techniques like etching, and then moved on to photography, a much faster medium. Now, after almost twenty five years, I finally combine these two techniques, making photography a slower medium and etching a faster one.
Photographic etching or "intaglio" is a non-toxic etching technique. A photosensitive polymer layer is applied to a metal plate, exposed by ultraviolet light and developed in soda. The result can be printed like a traditional etching.
The polymer layer is not as hard as a metal plate. Therefore less copies of one plate can be made. After printing the polymer is removed and a new etching can be made. Another technique I use is the Toyobo Plate, which is developed in water, but cannot be reused.
"Willow"
"Willow"
"Willow"
"Willow"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil"
"Black Veil" / edition of 25
"Garden"
"Cabin"
"Garden"
"Untitled"
"Garden"
"Road"
"Rotterdam Reflected"
"Imaginary Landscape"
"Imaginary Landscape"
"Imaginary Landscape"
"Imaginary Landscape"
"Allium Porrum"
"Bedouin Tent"
"Storm Clouds"
"Storm Clouds "
"Storm Clouds"
"Landscape with bush"
"Meitzad Zohar"
"Grapevine Canyon"
"Death Valley"
"Death Valley"
"Grand Gulch"
"The Spirit of Monument Valley"
"Saguaro"
"Cloud"
"Bryce Canyon"
"Birch Trees"
"Birch Trees"
"Grafitti Tree"
"Birch Tree"
"Birch Tree"
