"Fews Ford - Path" by Holden Richards
Fews Ford - Path
Holden Richards
Media: Gold Toned Van Dyke Brown
Frame Size: 11" x 14"
Price: $250
PROCESS
A Van Dyke is an iron-silver print made by painting Van Dyke Brown Solution (silver nitrate and ferric oxide) onto art paper. A negative is placed directly onto the coated area and placed into a contact frame. The frame is then exposed to UV light. The print is then developed, toned in gold and fixed chemically.
STATEMENT
Lately, I am shooting only 8x10 cameras, mostly older than 100 years old, and contact printing the results in the traditional wet darkroom on select European papers as well as making Kallitypes and other alternative prints.
BIO
Holden Richards is a traditional large format film photographer and native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough. Inspired primarily by walking the creeks and rivers of Orange and Durham Counties, these locations and subjects predominate his photographic work. He has studied view camera (with Jim Stone) and historic process printing (Jill Enfield) at Penland School of Crafts.
He is a current Getty Images Contributor who has had his work featured print, including Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, The Hand Magazine, and The Oxford American as well as appearing in corporate advertising campaigns through Getty. His recent monograph, Riverwalk, is included in the archives of the University of North Carolina and Duke University, and his darkroom work has been included in the Cassilhaus Collection and the collections of the cities of Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, among others.
