Adam French
Adam French is a traditional silver-based photographic artist living and practising in Leeds. French studied Photography at Leeds Arts University; however, nearly all the processes he uses are self-taught. He specialises in historical and traditional silver-based photography using a collection of photographic equipment spanning from the 1870s to the modern era. French’s work emphasises natural light portraiture, mainly in outdoor settings. Thematically, his work encompasses pictorialism and ethereal, timeless undertones, inspired by the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Brigman and Renaissance art as a whole. The processes he currently uses for picture taking are wet plate collodion, dry glass plate, paper negative process, Greenlaw’s calotype process, X-ray films, as well as standard roll film and sheet films. For printing, he uses silver gelatin paper, albumen printing, salt printing, Van Dyke brown, and occasionally lith printing and cyanotype.
His extensive knowledge of historical photographic processes has also given him the opportunity to work as a consultant for multiple high-budget TV productions, demonstrating and advising period-correct processes and producing historically accurate prints.
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