Handmade Photographs 3.4

We focus on analog B&W photographic techniques, our final products are Handmade Photographs by the gelatin silver process for black-and-white films and printing papers.

Photography Workshops

Mainly with analog cameras (Mechanical and Semi-automatic film cameras, Pinhole cameras and Polaroid)

• Street Photography
• Studio Photography
• Landscape Photography

Darkroom Workshops and Services

B&W film development

• Paterson tanks for 35mm and 120 roll films
• Developers
• for fine grain
• for pushing and pulling films
• Odorless Stop Baths and Fixers

Gelatin Silver Paper Prints (fully handmade RC and FB prints)

• LPE Enlarger for 35x24, 6x4.5 & 6x6 negatives
• All prints are developed in trays (max size 50x60 cm)
• Paper Developers and Toners
• Odorless Stop Baths and Fixers

Other Services

• Camera and Lenses rental and sale
• 35mm DRLs and Rangefinders (Pentax, Leica, Olympus)
• Medium Format TLR and Rangefinders (Ricoh, Mamiya)
• Studio rental by the hour with light kit, black and white backgrounds
• female and male models available
• Darkroom rental by the hour (with or without chemical supplies)



Film photography (Gelatin Silver Photography or Handmade Photographs) is a photographic technique introduced by Richard Leach Maddox in 1871 for obtaining a photograph by a photochemical process in which a film sensitive to light coated with small crystals (called grains) of silver salts such as silver bromide and silver chloride are exposed to light, then its development to obtain negatives and finally the hand-making of paper prints.

La photographie argentique (photographie fait à la main), présenté par Richard Leach Maddox en 1871 est une technique photographique permettant l'obtention d'une photographie par un processus photochimique comprenant l'exposition d'une pellicule (La pellicule est constituée d'un film support en plastique, recouvert d'une émulsion : c'est une couche de gélatine sur laquelle sont couchés en suspension des cristaux d'halogénure d'argent ) sensible à la lumière puis son développement et, éventuellement, son tirage sur papier.