artisan Robert Aguilar courtesy of the Guardian UK
Toronto. Past president of the PHSC, sports photographer, and author, Les Jones, dropped me an email the other day. As an ex-pat from England, Les enjoys reading British papers.
A recent article in the Guardian by Christopher Thomond titled “‘Prints don’t lie’: a platinum printer’s craft – in pictures” captured his eye. The article’s preview says, “Photographer Christopher Thomond joins artisan printer Robert Aguilar to find out how he creates platinum palladium prints as he makes one of Alford Gardner, the Windrush pioneer who died in 2024, aged 98″.
Collectors of vintage prints as well as folks (a great many) still using film will enjoy the story of how one can make platinum photographic paper since the store bought variety hasn’t been around for decades now.
