Coffee and Grinds Lumen
A lumen print is a contact print made only using sunlight on black and white photographic paper. The image is “burnt” onto the paper and then fixed – no developer chemicals are used.
Krakow cyano-lumen 1
A cyano-lumen is a combination print. Cyanotype fluid is used to coat the black and white photographic paper under safelight conditions. Once dry the coated paper is then used to form a contact print in the same way as traditional lumens or cyanotypes. The image is then rinsed and fixed.
Krakow cyano-lumen 2
The silver particulates in the paper react to the long exposure time by clumping to form interesting colour variations. Different manufacturers papers having different colour characteristics.
Lumens In Progress