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WORLD CYANOTYPE DAY
IKKAN SAIKI
“Daremo Shiranai(誰も知らない)”
Cotton Paper, Digital negative, Salt, Soapsuds
MANUELA OSORIO
“My Girl Smiles And The Sun Shines To Her”
Description: This piece is a collage. Is printed from a negative of portuguese tile, cut into pieces and glued to form another tile.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
JENIFER BRYAN
"Spring Baby"
CLOVER CRUZ
“Spring Is In The Air”
Description: I live in Shetland, the most northern part of the United Kingdom. I have always had a passion for photography. I have a passion for landscape photography and living in Shetland ticks all the boxes for wildlife and spectacular scenery. As well as my photography I love to go back to an alternative form of photography creating photograms using the Cyanotype process. I love making prints from the nature that surrounds us, flowers, and leaves, weeds, seaweed and nature all sourced in Shetland to produce beautiful blue prints. I mainly concentrate on the traditional cyanotype method but sometimes like to play with the wet cyanotype process also.
Location: Shetland, UK
ANTONIO de ALMEIDA
“Make A Wish”
Description: Dandelion, Vegetal Negative, Handmade Classic Cyanotype
Location: Baldellou - Huesca - Spain
VALERIE CARGO
“Dancing Dandelions, Flitting Fireflies”
Description: Spicy Cy. Wet into wet cyanotype with diluted vinegar, turmeric, rooibos tea, garam masala, table salt and Himalayan rock salt covered with scrunched plastic wrap then glass and left to cook in the sun until well done. Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper.
Location: Kincardine, Ontario. Canada
Location: Kincardine, Ontario. Canada
JILL WELHAM
“Treescape”
Description: Wet cyanotype on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper. Photogram using geranium leaves from my garden, soap suds and diluted white vinegar.
Location: United Kingdom
Location: United Kingdom
DENNIS HUMPHREY
“Pacific Buttercup”
Description: Wet cyanotype
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
HEIDE KNUDSEN
“Wild Beauty”
Description: wet cyanotype photogram, double exposure
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
IJBER/IJDA SMITS
“Secret Observation or My Shadow is a Peeper”
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
JONI STERNBACH
“01.01.05 #5”
Description: In camera 5x7 negative and cyanotype from original; negative ©2001
Location: New York, USA
Location: New York, USA
PARVATHI KUMAR
“Grace”
Description: This image was first shot digitally at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, CA in 2015 and the cyanotype was created in 2019 based on its digital negative.
Location: New Jersey, USA
Location: New Jersey, USA
VICTORIA COOPER/DOUG SPOWART
“After A Lunch Of Prawns”
Description: The print was made after a Christmas seafood lunch including prawns, on a warm summers day at the beach.
Location: Australia
Location: Australia
J.M. GOLDING
“Mandala 251 (We Celebrate The Magic Of Spring)”
Description: This piece is cyanotype photogram on watercolor paper.
KAREN HILLIER
“Pool”
Description: This cyanotype was made by drawing a negative on clear acetate. A pen nib dipped into India ink was used to draw the negative. The negative was contact printed onto a cotton handkerchief.
Location: Texas, USA
Location: Texas, USA
KOJI TOKURA
“Phlox Subulata Sacoche”
Description: A cyanotype print on a deerskin with a digital negative.
Location: Kashiwa, Japan
Location: Kashiwa, Japan
REBECCA MACFIE
“Demolition Site Flowers”
Description: These flowers were enjoyed during lockdown at a demolition site in New Zealand.
Location: New Zealand
Location: New Zealand
KATHLEEN FRIEDRICH
“Martha”
Description: I made this toned cyanotype from a recently discovered photograph of my grandmother, Martha, taken a couple of years before the flu pandemic of 1918…it made me smile to see her standing in this amazing field of flowers happily holding a huge bouquet of them for the camera. I wonder how she must have filled the house with them later.
Location: Ithaca, New York, USA
Location: Ithaca, New York, USA
RONALD D. BUTLER
"Girl's Night"
Description: This is a wetplate collodion image printed as an 8" x 10" cyanotype over platinum palladium on Arches Platine watercolor paper. The model is Cheryl Esposito. The mannequin is Carrata.
Location: New York, New York, USA
Location: New York, New York, USA
SUE JEFFRIES
“Dancing In The Flowers”
Description: I found a child's vintage dress on eBay and the quality of the cotton was so beautiful and crisp I thought cyanotype decoration from the flowers from my garden might work. Oh and some chicken feathers! It was completed over a number of days, as each section was painted with the chemicals and had different flowers and leaves laid onto it.
Location: Hertfordshire, UK
Location: Hertfordshire, UK
MELISSA WILGIS
“Believing”
Description: In September of 2018, Hurricane Florence sat above my small coastal town and dumped nearly 30 inches of rain on us. Sadly, a good bit of that went into my darkroom and I wasn’t able to work there for close to eight months. Being in the darkroom is like therapy, so I had to find a substitute. Since I primarily make silver gelatin photograms, the obvious transition was to make cyanotype photograms. "Believing" was part of a series created while I was waiting for my darkroom to dry out after the hurricane.
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
SUZE JANS
“Peas On Earth”
Description: Sweet Pea Leaves
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
db WALTRIP
"Heart Song In The Key Of Blue"
Description: This piece is a 22"X30" collage of cyanotype photograms made of organic materials found on location near the Encampment River at the Spirit West River Lodge in Wyoming, USA. Many friends collaborated on these pieces and I created the collage on watercolor paper when I returned to Florida. The river, the sunlight, the deep bond of friendship, all are represented in this piece.
Location: Encampment, Wyoming, USA
Location: Encampment, Wyoming, USA
NATALIA TCHERNIZK
“People Flower”
Description: Stamps made out of craft foam of people silhouettes, stamped sensitizing solution to make a flower, on Kozo Natural japanese washi paper, that made the solution flow like an inkwash. Words, constellations, people - all mixed and blooming.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MARIAN S. MCLELLAN
“Before The Banana”
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
"CELEBRATION"
MARCH 25, 2018
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IRINA GLIK
"Air Balloon"
JANE FULTON ALT
"Drawn from the Sea"
This piece was created with salt water from the Norwegian fjords, bleach, thread and Fabraino paper.
ANDREY FOKIN
"Moscow Hitrovka"
This is cyanotype print on watercolor paper, green tea toned.
PAT BROWN
“Sweetheart Lace”
This is a 30”x22” sun-printed cyanotype on paper.
AMY JASEK
"A Family Tree"
This is a photogram made in two parts: first, my parents, my daughter, and I made a photograph of our hands and forearms on a piece of cotton fabric. Then, I re-coated the fabric and exposed some botanical materials from my garden. We made this as part of my birthday in 2017, but really it was inspired by our love for one another and our connection to each other as a family.
INGRID LUNDQUIST
“Tacit Bond”
My first cyanotype using manmade rigid, partially transparent objects. These are salt and pepper shakers. The cyanotype reveals a look inside the celebration of union… a tacit bond, a fusion of spirit.
NATALIA TCHERNIAK
"Rite of the Spring"
6"x6" cyanotype on birch wood panel, using digital negative, comprised of 2 overlaid images. Inspired by Stravinsky's ballet "Rite of the Spring" in celebration of coming of spring and sacrifices made for the new cycle of life.
GEERTJAN PLOOIJER
“Survive”
Print of a negative.
PAULA RIFF
"Because Of Sunflowers"
@2018
Process: Color Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype Print, Photogram
IRIS PARIS MARTIN
“Water Nest”
This work is part of my collection of Botanical Cyanotypes. They are mad on paper (22”x30”). I use the vegetation directly to build my compositions, some being close to the sculpture because of its three-dimensionality.
These volumes help me to creat spaces, depths and tonal qualitites more typical of the use of phytoliths. Always looking for the limit of the technique.
All the works are unique and original.
VICKI REED
"Thanksgiving"
This is part of my "Dinner Plate Memories Series", combining vintage and recent family photos with the cyanotype process. I created a placemat by putting my parents' table setting on cyanotype fabric and exposing to sunlight. After it was developed and dried I transferred a family photo into the plate area of the fabric. This series is part of a larger body of work, "What We Leave Behind", related to my parents dementia/Alzheimer's and leaving things behind when they moved into a care facility.
ANGELA JOHNSON
“Untitled”
SHARI TRENNERT
“Untitled”
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DONNA MOORE
“Untitled”
db WALTRIP
"Piece O' Cake"
This is a collage of cyanotype photograms exposed on cotton fabric, mounted on a vintage tablecloth & embellished with embroidery thread.
VALERIE CARGO
"Mardi Gras"
This is spicy Cy's, wet into wet cyanotype using diluted vinegar and water and an ever-changing lineup of spices.
DORRAE STEVENS
"Winter"
This is a double-exposed, nature photogram. I find it important to celebrate the seasons as they pass. The gathering here are winter grasses and dying fall blooms. We must search for beauty, even in our bleak season, and we will find it.
KY LEWIS
"Allium Rising"
Cyanotype on Bockingford, a celebration of the power of the natural world and natural selection. Part of a larger body of work called "Common Ground". All work direct from source and on site.
RONALD BUTLER
"Tango"
This image was taken with a reversed lens Brownie Hawkeye camera. I made an enlarged digital negative and printed it as a cyanotype on Birch veneer.
RALPH WILSON
"The Bridesmaids"
Traditional formula cyanotype from a digital negative of scanned film printed on a vintage songbook page.
PEGGY HARTZELL
"Wonder"
This piece spans the worlds between the 1800s and today's digital world. The bird is from an iPhone photo taken early New Years Day 2018. Ferns from my home, snowdrop from the woods and lace from my great-great grandmother circa mid 1800s and perhaps a little bit of Lewis Carroll thrown into the image. Sir John in the Universe and Anna in the garden.
KIMBERLY CHIARIS
"Bloom"
Cyanotype on 100% Cotton with Gold Silk Embroidery.
LINDA CLARK JOHNSON
"Flying Dream"
This piece is cyanotype & watercolor and is 29.5" x 41".
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