Jan Avonds

New series in progress:

“Children at Play”

My images are hand-printed using the 19th-century developing-out platinum-palladium photographic process, which first involves hand-brushing the light-sensitive solution onto cotton-rag paper. In a deviation from the conventional process of exposing the sensitized paper by contact-printing with a large-format negative, I instead expose the sensitized paper using a novel scanning-laser system I developed.

Series in progress: “Ghosts of Amsterdam”