In anticipation of the Maker Sale held at my house, I unearthed some metallic c-print photographs I had taken a few years ago before a family and ‘real’ life came along. The photographs are from interesting locations in and around Toronto, including the Distillery District (I had actually won an award at Pikto for ‘The Conversation’ at that time), the Don Valley Parkway trails, the Brickworks and finally my cottage (not in Toronto this time, but Six Mile Lake).
Metallic c-print photography is a kind of printing on hyper-glossy photosensitive paper. The paper is so glossy that it has a metallic sheen, thus the name. It is not like printing via an ink-jet printer and is not actually metal. The print, while subject to scratches more than other kinds of photography is archival (100+ years) or so I am told.
In the case of these photographs, many of them were taken with a medium format Mamiya camera and scanned in via a drum scanner and then stitched together with some additional filtering in Photoshop for maximum effect.
Does this reappearance of these photographs signal a return to photography? Not likely, but every once in awhile it is interesting to look back and see where I once was.
