A small collection of thoughts from the dimmer corners of the studio.

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 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

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

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