Daniel Humphries-Russ - Photography

Original, handmade, archival pigment prints made with Ultrachrome pigmented inks on Harman Gloss Baryta paper, a 320 gsm, 100% alpha-cellulose paper. I am an artist that works with light. Photography captures light in a way that I can print it. Georg...

Original, handmade, archival pigment prints made with Ultrachrome pigmented inks on Harman Gloss Baryta paper, a 320 gsm, 100% alpha-cellulose paper. I am an artist that works with light. Photography captures light in a way that I can print it. George Eastman said, "Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." I photograph by available light as this is the light we live by. I make my own prints using current technology with traditional techniques. I compose tightly in the viewfinder and I print full frame. You see exactly what I saw in the viewfinder. Ansel Adams said, "To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print." In the beginning, it is all about the light; in the end, it is all about the print.