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All prints on the GALLERY5X7 site are original, handcrafted alternative process photographs available for purchase.

Interested in purchasing a print? Reach out to the artist using the links provided in each gallery.

“Forest at Glendalough” © David Aimone. Approx. 9” x 9" handcrafted multi-layer print on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag (gum bichromate over cyanotype over platinum/palladium). Signed single edition print offered by GALLERY5X7 at $650.

David Aimone

The blending of old and new, as well as traditional photography and other artforms, is something David is very interested in.  He began shooting and developing film, continued with large format and the use of old, sometimes “imperfect” lenses (by modern standards).  He is attracted to soft focus images and pictorialism. David experimented with Pinhole and zoneplate cameras, and now uses alternative methods of printing on hand-coated paper to create images that are handmade, unique and expressive.  David also combines these traditional and modern techniques with other mediums such as coloring, toning, painting and collage.

David resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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This Gallery includes artistic nudes.

"Icelandic Horses In The Winter, Iceland" © Mohan Bhasker. I caught this moment of four Icelandic Horses keeping warm in the cold Icelandic winter weather as they searched for grass underneath the snow. Approx. 6x9" (15x23cm) or 12x18" (31x46cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (platinum/palladium) on Revere Platinum. Signed, original editioned (1/10) print offered by GALLERY5X7.

Mohan Bhasker

As a young boy living in India, Mohan Bhasker’s love for photography began by assisting his father in the darkroom.  Mohan is a self-taught photographer that has travelled and photographed all seven continents.  His photography subjects reflect his passion for trekking, travel and nature.

His formal education made him a doctor, but the things he experienced while exploring with his camera made him the person he is today.  Spending countless hours with people from all over the world and walk of life, from the poorest to the wealthiest, has helped him understand and relate to human beings on a spiritual level.

Mohan shoots with medium and large format cameras. He processes his own black & white and color film and hand-crafts both silver gelatin and platinum palladium darkroom prints.  Both are darkroom processes that date back to the beginning of Photography.

Mohan’s photography has been exhibited in exclusive galleries in the USA. His photographs depict remote regions, where few travelers venture.  He currently teaches darkroom printing processes in his studio and in El Camino Community College.

Mohan Bhasker is primarily an analog film photographer who lives in Los Angeles, California.

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"Duo Tulips" © Annemarie Borg-Antara. Approx. 8x10" (20x25cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (cyanotype, double-coated Mike Ware process) on Hahnemühle Platinum rag. Original, signed and editioned print offered by GALLERY5X7.

Annemarie Borg-Antara

What Annemarie Borg demonstrates is her intense curiosity in attempting to push through the boundaries of her creative expression. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an ocean preservation speaker as well as a performance coach. She entered the world of visual art as a professional musician, classically trained singer, and ambient music composer with five album releases.

For Borg visual art is a natural extension of her passion for music and for the environment, she embraces her work from live performances and street photography, to a black and white macro photography series entitled “The Intimate Language of Flowers.” She approaches alternative photographic processes in the same way she approaches music and all her profesional commitments, expressing her deep passion for Nature. Through trial and error she finds her own way into these processes, from cyanotype to lumen on various supporting materials, and a personal combination of cyano-lumen process, then to Argyrotypes (Mike Ware process). She continues to experiment further with an extension of cyanotype that she calls Au Doigté, introducing ink and different substrates into the process. She firmly believes that creativity and imagination are the main tools for change, and that to be static is not an option.

Annemarie lives in Paris and in London.

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"Garden Violas" © Lisa Brussell. Violas from my garden. Approx. 8x6" (20x15cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (4-layer gum bichromate over cyanotype) on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag. Signed, original print offered by GALLERY5X7.

Lisa Brussell

Always open to learning a new artistic process, Lisa discovered the magical place where the digital world meets the tactile quality of historic photographic printing processes. She loves the process of combining different techniques and discovering ways to enhance the emotive quality of her photographic images. Her botanicals and landscapes reflect the quiet power of nature. Mostly self taught, she currently works using cyanotype, gum-bichromate, ziatype platinum and photopolymer gravure.

Lisa works out of her northern California home studio where she also creates branding and package design for clients

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The Ocracoke Island Lighthouse has been a landmark of the NC Outer Banks since 1823. B&W handcrafted alternative process photograph (original silver emulsion print from paper negative). "Ocracoke Island Light" © WJ Eastman Offered by GALLERY5X7

WJ Eastman

My name is Joe Eastman (WJ Eastman) and I am the Founder of GALLERY5X7, a site dedicated to connecting artists with a collecting community by creating a trusted channel to market handcrafted, alternative process photography.

The path that led me to the creation of GALLERY5X7 may not be typical of many other gallery owners.  Many who are connected to me via social media portals may not be aware of my background in medicine (dermatology) and in pharmaceutical medical affairs.  My professional credentials and experience gained over 25+ years are hard won – I am certainly proud of my career trajectory and achievements in support of patients with dermatologic disease.

What many of my friends and connections may not be aware of is my creative passion –  the creation and collection of handcrafted, alternative process photography. Some of you who know me personally know that I have been making silver gelatin photographic prints in my darkroom for over 35 years. More recently, I have begun to explore alternative process photography (which curiously, in a digitally-consumed world, includes silver gelatin prints!).  In addition to the creation of b&w silver gelatin prints from film and digital captures, I now primarily contact print from paper negatives – a process that allows me to incorporate texture into my b&w printing in a fresh and innovative way.

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"Croatia Side Street" © Alan Glover. Approx 11x7.5” handcrafted Van Dyke Brown print from a single negative printed on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper. GALLERY5X7 offers this original print, signed on the mount (mount size 16x12”), at $250.

Alan Glover

Alan Glover is a photographer based in the UK, in the Midlands between Birmingham & Wolverhampton. He has been a photographer all his life, inspired firstly by his father who had a black & white darkroom. For most of his life he was a man with a job and a hobby (photography of course), however, looking for a different approach to his work, he came across alternative historic photographic processes around 2014. 

Alan produces work mostly using the gum bichromate or cyanotype processes, but has also worked with Van Dyke Brown and would like to try most of the others when time permits!

Alan gets his inspiration from all around, often creating images with no fixed purpose or project in mind other than what pleases his eye. The many superb artists around the world using these processes are also a constant source of admiration and inspiration.

Alan is a member of Wolverhampton Society of Artists and has held several exhibitions local to his home and exhibits regularly in a local art gallery. He has also taken part in the last two iterations of ‘Poartry’, a project where local poets and artists are randomly paired up to produce pieces inspired by each other’s work, and also a funded Character Portraits Project where artists were matched with volunteers in the community to produce portraits of them to acknowledge and honour their commitment to the voluntary sector.

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The endless power of the human mind. "Bohemian Buddha" © David Heger. Approx. 20x20" handcrafted alternative process print (antracotypia, resinotype) on white plastic board; black pigment over imitation gold; wood frame, no glass). Signed, original editioned (1/10) print offered by GALLERY5X7 at $500.

David Heger

David Heger is self-taught photographer who draws inspiration from his experience as a cameraman in a puppet animation studio. He often creates his own small photography props and combines  them with real, natural scenery.

David creates unique prints using alternative photographic processes, especially resinotypes; he often experiments with metallic image backgrounds and pigment variations.

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"Branch With Seeds" © Mat Hughes. Found, Little Desert National Park, Victoria. Approx. 6.5x8.5" (16.5x21.5cm) handcrafted silver gelatin tree bark still-life study from scanned large format 4x5 negative. Printed on fibre paper and bonded on 16x16" (40.5x40.5cm) Forex foamboard ready for framing. Edition of 3 unique signed prints. Offered by GALLERY5X7 at $250.

Mat Hughes

Mat was born in Libya (when the country had a King) and raised in the UK. He was given a blue plastic camera when little, so naturally went on to study photography. After three years at the Plymouth College of Art & Design, he hit the streets of London in 1984 as a freelance photographic assistant. 

In 2009 he moved to Melbourne with his Australian-born wife. With the birth of his daughter in 2012, he became a full-time stay-at-home Dad. Between juggling the demands of a busy home life, he has continued to pursue his photographic craft.

With over 35 years’ experience, his craft bridges traditional wet-process film techniques as well as digital photography. Framing and presentation are integral to his process, and each is chosen carefully resulting in these finely crafted works.

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