At the end of March I made a few more Van Dyke Brown prints. These are made by hand coating paper with a light sensitive emulsion and then contacting printing them. A large 8" x 10" negative is put in "contact" with the sensitised paper and exposed to a UV light source. The image "prints out" during this exposure and no development is needed. Once the desired darkness is reached the print is washed in water and then fixed in sodium thiosulfate. The fixing step washes away any of the unused emulsion. There is a gold-toning step that can be undertaken later, which I have not yet tried. For now I dried and flattened these prints and showed them at the last meeting of the Monochrome Guild.
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