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06/13/2003 Entry: "alt-process showcase"

One of my favorite alt-process sites, alternativephotography.com, has started a new showcase to promote the use of alternative processes as a medium. I wish Malin luck in organizing this and will be scrounging through my alt-process prints to decide on one or two to send along for the project. It sounds like a fine way to spread the word about this tiny corner of the photo world, introducing these printing techniques to a wider audience and maybe inspiring some more photographers to try using alt-process for their own images.

You may be familiar with cross-processing, the development of slide film using color print chemistry. The same name is appplied to a different technique for Polaroid film. In the Polaroid version, which only works for the larger formats such as 8x10 or 20x24, color negative and black and white positive materials are run through the print processor. This results in a wonderful sepia tone image, known in the Polaroid world as "Chocolate." You can see some fine examples in a series of figure studies by John Casado. Figure studies and chocolate... what's not to like?