Alternative Processes

Teaching sustainable photographic processes at

We've been exploring anthotype, chlorophyll printing, and cyanotype - working with plant-based pigments, leaves, sunlight, and iron chemistry to rethink what an image can
be made of.

Great to see so many young students engage with such curiosity and openness, experimenting with processes where time, weather, materials, and unpredictability all
become part of the work. Thank you for inviting us

Join us May 29–30-31 and July 1st to 9th for a programme of workshops and an exhibition exploring the intersections between alternative photographic processes, DIY making, sustainability, and community-led practice.

Hosted in  Basement Gallery.

Our May workshops:

Alternative Futures with .nb (pay what you can)

Patchwork Memories: Making a Cyanotype Quilt Zine
with .humphreys_ (55£)

Waste Paper Making with .shorey (pay what you can starting for 20£)

Link in Bio to register

Tomorrow! link in Bio to register ✨

There is of course much more to chromatography than what I could fit here.
This is a way to begin seeing how plant-derived colours are not fixed, singular, or simple, but made from different compounds that separate, shift, and behave in their own ways.

And this is exactly what makes these practices so interesting to me.
A process that may look simple at first — a strip of paper, a pigment extract, a solvent — can open into questions about chemistry, colour, material behaviour, pH, light, surface, extraction, and time.

This is also why alternative processes are so expandable. They are not closed techniques with one fixed outcome. They are systems you can keep studying, testing, adapting, and deepening.

Inside the Alternative Processes Academy, this is the way we approach them: not only as instructions to follow, but as materials to understand.

Enrolment fee rises on May 10th https://alternative-processes-s-school1.teachable.com/p/alternative-processes-academy?coupon_code=ANNIVERSARY