[alt-photo] Harald Leban /back on "the list"

[Harald Leban]

Hello everybody,
after years I decided to join this list "the list" again to look for some
news, some well known names and also  new fellows of the "real"
photographic processes. I was part of it from the beginning ,nearly 20
years ago, and got so much good information from such precious friends, I
hope some of you are still here.
Now that my children are "out of the house", I have more headroom for this,
my passion - the photographic craftmanship ( I simply call it heliography).
It was in the 90ths when I started with platinum printing and other ferric
processes. It was the time when I "constructed" the ABC+Pyro formula for
alt-printing negatives (aka Rollo Pyro). I hope some of you still find it
helpful for their work.
 I know that in the meantime the digital way of making enlarged negatives
is prior but nothing can beat a well done 8x10"++ pyro neg.

In the past years I opened my mind more for the photomechanic process,
heliogravüre, photogravure etc..
It´s now my primary activity to find the right perfection to handle these
processes-together with a project in instant photography (Polaroid/Fuji)
where I try to isolate the "latent" negatives from the filmpack and use it
for alternative work, too.

I hope there is still enough creative and enthusiastic power in this list,
I will do my best to keep it.

allthebest

Harald


Harald Leban
Hainburg/Austria