china and alt process

Wow,
What a trip--china with Sam Wang at the helm, several of us list members
along for the ride, all 12 of us photographers, 6 cities, lecturing to 5
art schools about photography, it was an absolute HOOT!! The poor tour
guides just could NOT understand photographers; we'd pull up to a temple and
he/she would start the history lecture and by the time the first sentence
was out, all 12 of us would have disappeared with our cameras to photograph
that next best thing. Call us ADHD I suppose. My calculation is our group
must have taken about 24,000 images. Best tour I have ever been on with a
group.

Excellent food and oh so cheap. We lovingly nicknamed it the Eats, Shoots,
and Runs tour but don't ask why.

Anyone on this list live in China or know of a Chinese supplier for photo
chemistry such as platinum or ammonium dichromate or such? I have heard
that the government controls precious metals...Can one ship alt chems from
the US there easily? Students seem well ahead digitally of what I see in the
states but alt process is almost...nonexistent.

Their undergraduate senior show had a printed CATALOG! Wow. I can't wait to
show my seniors.
Chris

PS try explaining gum printing and mordancage to Chinese students...when I
talked about the mordancage chemistry "eating away" the print (we lectured
with a translator at our side) Sam about died. He had visions of students
eating chemistry. I quickly switched to "dissolves".
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