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Matt Zory, www.matthewzory.com artisan / Creative and Artistic Photographer, Musician – assistant principal basswith the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, author, “The Remaking of Cincinnati’s Music Hall.”

Matt is driven to explore, create and rediscover. These past several months he has dwelled back into historic photo printing techniqes, specifically Platinum/Palledium Contact Printing. Matt has invited ten members of OVCC to come to Pendleton Arts Center and see his work and demonstration of this printing technique.

Platinum prints, also called platinotypes, are photographic prints made by a monochrome printing process involving platinum. For those who collect photographs, platinum/palladium prints are known for their beauty, archival stability and unique, one-of-a-kind print statement.
The platinum tones range from warm black, to reddish brown, to expanded mid-tone grays that are unobtainable in silver prints.
As with most historical photographic processes, a platinum print is made by placing the negative and emulsion-coated paper in direct contact. Therefore, the size of the photographic print is equal to the size of the negative.

Unlike the silver print process, platinum lies on the paper surface, while silver lies in a gelatin or albumen emulsion that coats the paper. As a result, since no gelatin emulsion is used, the final platinum image is absolutely matte with a deposit of platinum (and/or palladium, its sister element which is also used in most platinum photographs) absorbed slightly into the paper.

Platinum prints are the most durable of all photographic processes. It is estimated that a platinum image, properly made, can last thousands of years. Some of the desirable characteristics of a platinum print include:
• The reflective quality of the print is much more diffuse in nature
compared to glossy prints that typically have specular reflections.
• A very delicate, large tonal range.
• Not being coated with gelatin, the prints do not exhibit the
tendency to curl.
• The darkest possible tones in the prints are lighter than silver-based
prints. Recent studies have attributed this to an optical illusion
produced by the gelatin coating on RC and fiber-based papers.
However, platinotypes that have been waxed or varnished will
produce images that appear to have greater D-max than silver prints.
• A greatly decreased susceptibility to deterioration compared to
silver-based prints due to the inherent stability of the process and
also because they are commonly printed on 100% rag papers.