Alternative photography techniques

A collection of awesome creative techniques, mixed media approaches and compositional ideas to inspire Photography students.

While many photographers aim for technical perfection, photographer William Miller goes the opposite route. After "rescuing" an old and barely functional

Looking to take your instant photography game a step higher? Try your hand at making emulsion lifts!

Double profile, solarized, 1932

Alternative Photography - Printing Photos on Objects: Liquid Light is probably one of the coolest inventions in photographic history. It basically allows you to print photographs onto anything and everything using standard darkroom procedures. You can print on wood, metal, glass, walls, even eggs! (Don…

There's a misconception that one needs a digital camera to practice artistic photography. We look at various methods through which images can be captured without using a digital camera. Most of these methods are beginner-friendly, however any photography experience will come in handy.

Bárbara Morais shares her process of preserving - otherwise unstable - Chlorophyll photographs, making them UV resistant.

Given that most photos are captured digitally and shared online, it’s easy to forget the beauty of a print. The history of photographic printing is a

Gumoil printing was introduced in the 90th of the last century by American photographer Karl Koenig. Gumoil or Gumoil printing is the method for producing photos with gum, chromium salts and oil paints. It's painstaking and very expressive photographic method that combines unique author's point and documentary photography. Through the use of materials for art works - cotton paper and ...