Nik Stanbridge
Analogue photography and printmaking
Photogravure Articles
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My Photogravure Journey 4: Calibrating my own plate exposure times
Getting stuck into the actual printing part of polymer photogravure was what I was most looking forward to. But as with most creative processes, there’s a lot to do before you can get to the fun bit. Here it’s the process of creating the printing plates, which requires the calibration of your UV exposure unit…
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My Photogravure Journey 3: Learning the basics by going to a workshop
Having done my process and resources research, and given the skills and capabilities needed, I decided that it would make a huge amount of sense to attend a photogravure printing workshop. This, I hoped, would give me the skills and capabilities boost I’d need to really get to grips with photogravure printing. Courses and workshops…
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My Photogravure Journey 2: The process basics
To get going you need: This simple list makes it look relatively straightforward but a lot of complexity (and other bits of kit) is hidden within each step. Supplies and support forums Assuming for a second that you’re going to get yourself access to a UV exposure unit and a printing press, the consumables you…
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My Photogravure Journey 1: Seeing prints in the flesh at the Royal Academy in London
It was actually in the autumn and it was (only) my second time, the first having been last year, when Grayson Perry was the lead curator. In case you don’t know, it’s a publicly accessible, open submission show of art of any sort held at the Royal Academy in London. It’s been running for hundreds…