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 at @photobookcafe Basement Gallery in London 🇬🇧
Our May workshops:
Alternative Futures with @shynara.nb (pay what you can)
Patchwork Memories: Making a Cyanotype Quilt Zine
with @lillian.humphreys_ (55ÂŁ)
Waste Paper Making with @kate.shorey (pay what you can starting for 20ÂŁ)
Link in Bio to register
Thank you everyone for joining yesterday’s session! A reminder that in 2 days, the enrolment fee for the Alternative Processes Academy will increase to reflect all the lessons, expansions, and resources added over the past 3 years.
Join 700 practitioners using the Academy to expand and deepen their practice.
Until May 10 th!
Over the last three years, the Academy has expanded significantly. The enrolment fee will soon be adjusted to reflect that growth. Link in bio to enrol at the current rate !
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.
The Academy has grown a lot over the past 3 years.
It has become a much deeper long-term resource: new lessons, expanded processes, guest lectures, experiments, notes, and practical tools have been added over time.
Because of that, the enrollment fee will soon increase to reflect what the Academy has become.
During the 3-year anniversary period, you can still join at the current rate until May 10th.
what changed?
what worked?
what failed?
what to revisit?
Over time, that becomes more than notes. It becomes a real working archive. A process log is one of the simplest ways to turn experimentation into actual knowledge.
Inside the Academy, this way of working is a big part of what we teach — not just individual techniques, but how to build a body of knowledge you can keep returning to.
We don’t teach processes as isolated recipes.
A workshop becomes meaningful when participants understand what is happening well enough to continue developing it on their own.
That kind of depth is what the Academy has been built around over the past three years.
As it has expanded, the enrollment rate will soon rise to reflect what it has become.
Anniversary enrollment is currently open. Link in bio!
You have results, tests, failures, discoveries — but it’s not always clear how they connect, or how they can become part of a deeper artistic practice.
In this live session, I’ll be talking about how to move from isolated experiments toward a more structured, intentional way of working with alternative photographic processes.
We’ll look at:
– how to build continuity between experiments
– why documentation matters and how to do it
– how materials can guide your work
– what it means to move from “making images” to developing a process-led practice
– how processes like cyanotype, anthotype, and chlorophyll printing can become tools for research, not just techniques
WHEN
8 pm CET (Central Europe)
7 pm BST (London)
2 pm EDT (New York)
11 am PDT (Los Angeles)
Hosted on Google Meet!
The Alternative Processes Academy is like a reference book on your shelf (but in video format)—the one you pull down whenever your creative project hits a snag or when you need a spark of technical authority to move forward.
Over the last three years, the Academy has expanded significantly. The enrolment fee will soon be adjusted to reflect that growth.
Some amazing prints and kind words by our Academy member @jaimemariapia , a multidisciplinary artist, working with drawing, photography, printmaking and building materials.
In her photography, she explores sensory experiences that extend beyond the skin, rooted in an active practice of care. Her work questions where the boundary lies between inside and outside, and engages with the tension of control and its absence.
She reflects on the complexity of emotions—shifting from tenderness to destruction—and their materialisation, primarily within her own body, and extending to the bodies of her family and the surrounding landscape.
