On March 17th, I printed three more negatives for consideration for the Apparitions Project. I used unsharp masks that I made a couple weeks back. This printing session included two negatives from my first Saskatchewan trip, in June of 2024, and one negative that dates back to 2022.
Apparitions will be a gallery exhibition that includes 32 fine art silver gelatin photographs. Half will be mine, and the other half will be by my colleague Arturo Pianzola. We have been shooting for the project since 2020, and are now selecting and printing the images for exhibition.
I have literally hundreds of negatives to choose from and the issue for me is deciding which ones to include. We were awarded an Edmonton Arts Council grant that funded materials for printing and framing. The grant period wraps up in a couple of months and at that time I need to submit our final budget. Other than final assembly of the frames, we are essentially complete. But, I continue to make more prints, and now have around two dozen done. I have at least ten more or so, and would like to make prints of those as well. Once they are all complete I will make the final selection as to which ones end up in frames and make it into the exhibition.
These images are phone snapshots of my 16" x 20" prints in a holding tray of water. This followed development, stop bath and first fix. In the next day or so I will continue with second fix, rinse, clearing bath, toning in selenium, selective bleaching, and then final wash.
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