Artist, photographer, printmaker, experimenter. Since 2002, in my work I have been using various methods of obtaining images as a tool for expressing personal experience and my own worldview. Expanding the boundaries of internal dialogues. I work with both images and meanings. I enjoy reviving old and developing new printing methods. Using a photographic image as a source material. I find points of contact with the art of printed graphics — printmaking. I destroy the difference in perception between modern and traditional art. A special mission today is the revival of the phototype printing method (collotype).
New Collotype: Transforming the Photomechanical Process into an Artistic Printing Method
Collotype, invented in France in 1855 as a photomechanical printing method, reached its peak in the last century. Today, it is almost forgotten in its original form.
By working at the intersection of photography and classical printing techniques, I am reviving phototype through my work and creativity as an authorial method of artistic printing. This involves transforming photographs into prints—unique graphic works created with the artist’s personal involvement.
I am reinterpreting collotype as a photomechanical process, offering artists the opportunity to create with a new printing technique. This enables them to produce printed graphics in their own studios.
I make the process accessible and independent of complex equipment.
Collotype, photomechanical printing process that gives accurate reproduction because no halftone screen is employed to break the images into dots. In the process, a plate (aluminum, glass, cellophane, etc.) is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin solution and exposed to light through a photographic negative. The gelatin is hardened in exposed areas and is then soaked in glycerin, which is absorbed most in the non-hardened areas. When exposed to high humidity, these areas absorb moisture and repel the greasy ink. The hardened areas accept the ink, and the plate can be used to print a few thousand copies of the positive image (Britannica).
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