Clowns
2024
Salt printing is one of the earliest printing processes, which involves coating a sheet of paper with a solution of gelatin and salt, then sensitized with silver nitrates. The process was developed in the 1830s by William Henry Fox Talbot, and it is still used today to give images an antique feel. I developed “Clowns” as a way to combine digital photography and an old process—creating timeless images from modern technology. Each image was a long exposure digital image captured in low, LED lighting; inkjet printed as a negative on acetate; then exposed as a salt print.