| During the years that we have been working with alternative photography we have participated in approximately eighty exhibitions; about twenty of them have been solo exhibitions (even if we are two). We have exhibited in France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, USA, Norway, Belgium, England (1994 at RPS, the Royal Photographic Society in Bath)
We started with three colour carbon in 1985. We then used the Hanfstaengl (Germany) material but after some years we started to do our own tissues. We have also modernized the process to suite our conditions. During the first fifteen years we worked in our appartment using the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom areas. Since six years we have a little atelier, just across the street where we live. During the R&D work with carbon printing we also started to print gum bichromate - which became some kind of relax from the exactness of carbon printing. Also in 1985 we started with platinum printing. In 1993 we bought our first computer… Our visions of using the computer in combination with alternative photography rendered us a grant from the Hasselblad foundation in 1994 for our project "Computer-aided fine art photographic printing". Noone understood what we were talking about - but today we are there… (almost!) Last summer we "throw out" our darkroom and since some years we make our negatives in the digital way (but - we have some boxes of Agfa N33p, P230p etc in the fridge - they are still the best). The reason for throwing out the darkroom was - the computer. We had started with b/w archival carbon inkjet printing and found the result stunning! In September 2003 we made hundred 50x60 cms prints for the Hasselblad Center in connection with the opening of the exhibition Twins by Mary Ellen Mark. Four different motives from her Twins project, 25 of each. |
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