8×6” black frame with art mount and Cyanotype print insert
What is cyanotype?
Cyanotype is a contact print made by exposing UV reactive chemicals to sunlight.
The process is classified as a form of alternative photography as the process uses light to capture imagery.
With cyanotypes though, you don’t use a camera to capture the image, you use the thing itself, which means you are basically capturing the silhouette.
How do cyanotypes work?
When ferric ammonium citrate is mixed with potassium ferricyanide, it becomes sensitive to UV light.
These chemicals are painted onto paper and left to dry in a dark room. Once dry, objects can be arranged onto the paper and placed in the sun to cast a silhouette.
The UV rays from the sun react with the chemicals on the paper to create the recognisable cyan-blue background.
Once the chemicals are rinsed off with water, this fixes the print so it is no longer sensitive to the sun and you are left with a beautiful print. :)
Due to the nature of how it's made, each piece is unique
Either in pattern, exposure or tone
8×6” black frame with art mount and Cyanotype print insert
What is cyanotype?
Cyanotype is a contact print made by exposing UV reactive chemicals to sunlight.
The process is classified as a form of alternative photography as the process uses light to capture imagery.
With cyanotypes though, you don’t use a camera to capture the image, you use the thing itself, which means you are basically capturing the silhouette.
How do cyanotypes work?
When ferric ammonium citrate is mixed with potassium ferricyanide, it becomes sensitive to UV light.
These chemicals are painted onto paper and left to dry in a dark room. Once dry, objects can be arranged onto the paper and placed in the sun to cast a silhouette.
The UV rays from the sun react with the chemicals on the paper to create the recognisable cyan-blue background.
Once the chemicals are rinsed off with water, this fixes the print so it is no longer sensitive to the sun and you are left with a beautiful print. :)
Due to the nature of how it's made, each piece is unique
Either in pattern, exposure or tone
