Jan Avonds

New series in progress:

“Ghosts of Amsterdam”

This 750 year-old city blends a mix of old and new. Along with the skewed houses, spirits of ages past have been preserved down through the ages, and with careful photography, hints of their presence can be revealed.

The 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.