GALLERY II
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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.
Colin Irwin
Colin has been involved in the arts since childhood when he took his first summer art class at age 10 followed a few years later by a birthday gift of a Canon AE-1, which fueled his photography explorations. In high school many hours were spent in the drama department both acting and working behind-the-scenes, which eventually lead to a course of study at U.S.C. Film School.
Out “in the real world” Colin pursued and found employment in film and television set design, although he never abandoned his more personal artistic pursuits of painting and photography. The AE-1 is still in use, now augmented with 6×6” medium format and digital image capture technologies.
Since 2005 he has been printing exclusively in gum oil, preferring the impressionistic quality of the finished prints. Colin has also been a guest lecturer on the gum oil process at Santa Monica College near Los Angeles.
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Andy Kraushaar
Andy Kraushaar is a photographer and collector of vernacular photographs living in Madison, Wisconsin. He works primarily with cyanotype and gum bichromate. All of the images are captured digitally and then negatives are produced to make the prints.
His father encouraged him to appreciate birds when he was very young, five or six years old. Since that time nearly 3 billion birds have disappeared from across the US and Canada. This is nearly a 30% decline in bird populations due to agricultural practices, pesticides, habitat loss, and a variety other factors. It seemed to him like a good time to start to photograph the survivors.
The combination of his fascination with historic photographic processes and his existing skills in photography led him on a path to combine the two interests. In 2019 he attended a weeklong workshop on the bichromate printing process at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. And in the summer of 2020 he worked one-on-one with an artist to refine his work with the process. Although employed largely by Pictorialist photographers between the 1890s and the 1930s, gum printing is undergoing a modest resurgence. The resulting prints are surprisingly painterly and the process invites chance. It is an appropriate technique for this subject, taking a step away from the too often clinical and literal translation offered by digital media.
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Richard Kynast
Growing up in the Arizona-Sonora desert teaches many things, a respect for the way nature takes care of itself, along with a realization of the frailty, as well as resiliency, of life. Richard’s landscapes are an attempt to reflect those messages and his studio work is marked by its simplicity.
Among the last to switch from film, in 2009 Richard started building prints that crossed an 1870’s platinum process with modern digital technology as a means of expression. Never satisfied with his results, his work is continually changing as it continues to evolve.
Richard’s favorite quote comes from one of his patrons: “your photographs give me peace.”
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This Gallery includes artistic nudes.
Sarah Lycksten
Sarah Lycksten is an analogue photographer specialising in historical photographic techniques. She lives on a small Island in Sweden where she runs a gallery converted from an old barn. Sarah offers workshops, exhibitions and holds lectures about analogue photography.
For the last decade and a half Sarah has explored many techniques but the majority of her work focuses on lith printing, cyanotype and wet plate photography.
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Marek Majewski
Marek Majewski is a a self-taught photographer and print maker living in Paris.
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Alex Mavromaras
Inspired by the Greek Impressionists, Alex Mavromaras explores the rural Athenian landscapes as they blend in with historic town centers and archeological sites of Classical and Byzantine Greece. Alex holds a BA in Film & Visual Arts and an MSc in Information Technology. He started his career as a film crew member, documenting Byzantine Hagiography in the Monasteries of Mount Athos, in Northern Greece. He studied the work of 19th century Greek photographers (Philip Margarites, Petro Moraitis and particularly Spyro Milionis’ “ferroprussiate prints”) and early examples of “chromophotographs,” painted-over photographs, which contained an artistic element produced by hand. Evolving through his passion in the history of 19th century Greek photography, Alex extended his talent further into alternative printing techniques, experimenting with cyanotypes, gumoil and oil-printing.
Alex Mavromaras has lived in Egypt, Germany and the UK, and since 2004 has resided permanently in Athens, Greece. His work consists of one-of-a-kind cyanotypes on paper, glass and vellum as well as gumoil prints and oil-prints, exhibited in several Athenian and Greek island galleries.
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Barry Mayfield
Barry Mayfield is an Irish photographer and musician. He first took up photography as a hobby while working in the Canary Islands as a musician in 2004 and was soon hooked.
For the past number of years he has been exploring alternative techniques, primarily lith printing, in his darkroom in Cork, Ireland. His work is heavily influenced by post impressionism and he uses toy and pinhole cameras, as well as alternative printing methods, to achieve this aesthetic.
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Anna Melnikova
Anna Melnikova is a photographer and artist originally from Belarus. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Minsk and holds a professorship in Graphic Design and Photography at the same institute. Anna is currently the Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Minsk, a position she was appointed to in 2018.
Anna obtained a master’s degree in Art History and received post-graduate training at the Academy of Fine Arts specializing in Design and Technical Esthetics. In 2015 she obtained the scientific qualification of “Researcher” in Art. She has participated in numerous photo exhibitions and projects in Belarus and abroad. She is a member of the “Belarusian Union of Designers” and the “Belarusian Union of Artists” and is an Associate at the Rodolfo Namias Group (GRN), Italy.
Anna’s photographic interests include street photography and fine art photography using alternative photographic processes, mainly focused on gum bichromate and cyanotype processes.
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