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I’ve always loved photography and have been shooting mostly analog photos for the past few years. About a year ago, wanting to take this interest in analog photography a little further, I decided to set-up a darkroom at home. Even shooting analog, more and more I found I had the tendency to view my images as scans on a computer and, through making my own prints, I hoped to again establish a more tangible connection with my photos.
Having already learned the basics of black and white darkroom printing, I became more interested in how photographs could be manipulated using certain darkroom techniques such as solarization and selective development. It was while researching some of these techniques that I learned about liquid emulsion and saw some great examples of how it had been used in the past by photographers such as David Prifti and Jill Enfield.
View over Cappadocia in Turkey on Nine Tiles
 
Portrait of Ina on Nine Tiles
 
Developing-on-Stone
 
Liquid emulsion is phot...

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Tom is a photographer from the UK who is currently based in Vienna, Austria. He has a particular interest in analog photography and alternative photographic processes. He develops photographs on stone tiles in a darkroom under the name of Shots/onStone.
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