By Peter Sandilands
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The original negatives of my Photo-Art Collection have usually been taken on my favourite monochrome film, Ilford FP4 Roll-film, processed personally by hand in Ilford chemicals.
I have used a great variety of cameras over the last fifty years, but most of my Fine-Art pictures have been taken with 2¼"sq. twin-lens reflex cameras, beginning with an early favourite Rolleiflex, and now with my current favourite camera, a Mamiya C330f Professional, with interchangeable lenses, and a pentaprism for easier focussing by ageing eye.
My prints are personally created by hand, using an Agfa Varioscop 60 automatic-focussing enlarger, and my usual monochrome printing paper is Ilford Multigrade FB Fibre paper, in a matt finish. Processing is again by hand in Ilford chemicals, and the prints are then sepia or selenium toned, before being washed for one hour in running water. The finished prints are hung up to dry naturally overnight, and finally dry-mounted on to Studland 6-sheet mounting board, with a hand-cut bevelled window-mount, before being spotted, signed and numbered by the artist.
Using fibre-based paper, dish-processing by hand, sepia or selenium toning, adequate washing times, avoiding chemical contamination and dry-mounting the finished prints guarantees archival permanence. My Photo-Art photographic prints will not fade on display, even in direct sunlight. Under normal gallery display conditions, the prints can be expected to remain unaffected for at least 100 years, and probably 500 years.
My Giclee Prints, in either Black & White or Colour, are printed on an Epson Photo Stylus C86 Ink-jet Printer, and 11"x 8"(A4) is the maximum size I can supply at present. These prints are now archivally guaranteed, and will not fade for 80 years, or more, under normal indoor room conditions, if framed under glass, or kept in an album.
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