Mike Ware - Alternative Photography
Mike Ware - Alternative Photography

Essays & Polemics

Alternative Printing: A Conspectus

An overview to help the newcomer to this subject decide if there might be anything in it for her or him. There is also a tabular summary of all the most important alternative processes.


In Defence of Alternative Processes

A polemic in response to some ill-considered editorial denigration of these minority practices.


An Ironic Manifesto

A review of the iron-based ('ferric') processes, the chemical problems that have beset them historically, and how they have been overcome in modern versions of the processes.


A Bridge for Two Cultures

A personal credo from the abyss dividing Science and Art!