Published in Black & White Magazine - Dec 2024, Issue #169

October 10, 2024

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that my photo, "Self Portrait #1" was a winner in Black & White Magazine's "Looking Forward - Looking Back" contest in the Alternative Processes category and was published in the December 2024 issue! I'm honored to once again, be published in this amazing magazine. This self portrait was actually taken in 1999. Last year, while I was at a Mordançage workshop, I put the photo through the Mordançage process and this is what turned out. 

If you are not familiar with Mordançage, it is an alternative photographic process that involves chemically altering black-and-white photographic prints to create unique, textured effects. The process originates from a 19th-century technique called etch-bleach, which was later refined by French photographer Jean-Pierre Sudre in the 1960s. Elizabeth Opalenik, who was a student of Sudre's, put her own spin on the process by creating the "veils" in Mordançage. The veils are the lifted black emulsion from the print that give the print texture and depth. Sudre never kept the emulsion on his prints, but wiped it away. I find that it adds so much to prints when the veils are kept. I was lucky enough to take 2 workshops with Elizabeth, learning this process. Since you need a print that was created in a darkroom for this process, it is near and dear to my heart and I hope to be creating many more wonderful images with this process.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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