The large format pushes the cyanotype process somewhere it doesn’t always go — at A1 scale the gestural quality of the hand-applied light-sensitive solution becomes a compositional element in its own right, the brush strokes and the variations in chemical distribution visible in a way that smaller formats don’t permit. Craig Keenan uses both negative and contact printing in this piece, a combination he describes as highlighting how versatile yet constrained the process is: two different modes of image-making within the same photographic medium.
Each copy in the edition is unique, varying from the others as a consequence of the hand-applied process — the cyanotype solution painted onto the substrate by hand before exposure, which means the mark-making differs across the edition. Printed on A1 board, framed and ready to hang. The frame comes in the wood of your choice. £557.
