Anna Atkins is often considered the first photographer. While she was not the first to ever take a photograph, she was the first to publish a book with photographs as the primary means of conveying information. This makes her work some of the earliest examples of what we would now consider “art.” Here’s a look …
The first female photographer didn’t use a camera and was actually a botanist. Read More »
A handprinted cyanotype of the Wollemi Pine leaf. This leaf is taken from my own young Wollemi Pine I have growing in my home. One fateful day in 1994, a park ranger by the name of David Noble was hiking through a remote canyon in the Blue Mountains, Australia when he came across something that …
Let me start by clearing up a little fact that trips every beginner cyanotype experimenter. Cyanotype is not actually a physical thing. Many beginners including myself, fall into the assumption that each picture they make is ‘a cyanotype’. Well, apparently not. Cyanotype is the name of the process. It is a photographic process, in fact, …
