About the Platinum Palladium Prints and Uranotype Prints

Each print is handmade. I start with 100% cotton paper (COT 320 for pt/pd and Hahnemühle Platinum Rag for Uranotypes) which I then hand coat with expensive, toxic, and ultraviolet sensitive chemistry. This is a contact print process so I then make a full size digitally enlarged negative. After exposure through the negative to an intense source of UV radiation, each print is hand processed in the appropriate chemistry, carefully washed, and air-dried.

Uranotype prints make use of the photo sensitive properties of uranyl nitrate. They were very popular during the second half of the 19th century because their warm old rose color was flattering for portraits. Like many of the other hand-made printing processes, uranotypes fell from popularity when factory-made photo printing paper became widely available.”

The Platinum-palladium printing process was patented in the late 1870s making the craft and technology used to make these prints more than 100 years old.