Tag: polish-heritage

• Brooklyn based artist Galina Kurlat creates vivid lumen prints using hair, blood, and saliva

  28 May 2025Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom Lumen prints are made by exposing silver gelatin paper to light for extended periods of time. This unique photographic process does not require a camera or a darkroom, but instead relies on light from the sun. Galina Kurlat, known for her use of lumen printing, creates painterly like images…

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  28th May 2025

  historical processes

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• Polish artist Magda Kuca uses historic processes to visualise Slavic rituals and folklore

  24 April 2025Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom Inspired by heritage, family, and memory Magda Kuca tells stories exploring foklore and Slavic rituals. Magda collects plants, herbs, and archival material from Poland and brings them back to her studio in London to create visually striking images. These black and white photographs are formed using historic processes such…

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  23rd Apr 2025

  historical processes

  Alternative Photography, art, art-history, artist, artist interview, blog, community, darkroom-processes, exhibition, experimental photography, family, featured, gum-bichromate, heritage, historical processes, interview, photographer, photography, polish-heritage, ritual, slavic-ritual, wet-plate-collodion, women in photography, writing