A Recce Down the River Chelmer
A Recce Down the River Chelmer I went for a recce down my lane to see if the River Chelmer had any water in it yet — it’s been dry for months. The last time I was here I made
December 9, 2025
A Recce Down the River Chelmer I went for a recce down my lane to see if the River Chelmer had any water in it yet — it’s been dry for months. The last time I was here I made
For those of us drawn to slow, thoughtful landscape work, David George needs little introduction. His East of Eden project — rendered through an extraordinary series of polymer gravure prints — brings together nineteenth-century aesthetics, long-distance walking, and a deep
The Beauty of Failed Experiments Every alternative process artist has a drawer — or a box — full of failures. Uneven coatings, weak exposures, streaks, stains, chemistry that didn’t behave, paper that rebelled.Images that didn’t quite become what you hoped.
Paper as a Landscape Paper is often treated as a surface — a blank space waiting for an image. But in alternative processes, the paper is part of the image.It has a grain, a direction, a geography. Some papers have
Why We Print There’s a moment — a small moment — when an image stops being a file and becomes a thing you can hold. There’s a shift from light on a screen to light embedded in fibres, chemistry, and
What Handmade Photography Teaches Us About Time (with Vageeswari, paper negatives, Petzval lens & the Derby hat) In handmade photography, time isn’t something to rush — it’s something to work with.Every stage asks for a different kind of patience: waiting
The Beauty of Imperfection in Alternative Processes In handmade photography, perfection isn’t the goal — presence is. Every mark, every inconsistency, every unexpected shift in tone becomes part of the print’s character. Instead of chasing flawless surfaces, we learn to
The Quiet Pleasure of Watching an Image Appear A reflection on that magical developing moment — universal to all processes. There’s a moment in handmade photography that never gets old — no matter how many times you coat a sheet,