Street Pourne (SALT PRINTING PROCESS)
Street Pourne (SALT PRINTING PROCESS)
This unique photo book is composed of my recent Salt Prints. The photographs were captured using film as well as digital but were printed using the traditional Salt Printing process from the late 1830’s and 1840’s. I really enjoy the very tangible aspect of creating salt prints, especially if I am working from a film negative. You can see that each print was purposeful printed to either show a ‘scattering’ of an edge, or…I printed completely to the end. I like both, so I use both in this book. I call it Street Pourne for ‘you can’t make this stuff up, for it is the real thing’. Like all of my photography, I look for pure candid shots. I never ask for anyone to pose and I set up my camera settings to shoot ahead of time. Since I mainly shoot film, I have no idea of the finished product until after I develop. I then scan the negatives to produce a larger negative before I print using the salt printing process. I then will scan the physical print in order to publish. So what you see is what my print actually appears. I abhor photoshop and want the ‘real deal’.