A conversation with Sandy King


It was a real pleasure to speak with Sandy King. Our conversation got me motivated to get creative and to start thinking about my photographic practice (or during this time of quarantine: stay inside, start reviewing my portfolio and thinking about what I need to learn to help my practice move forward).

I hope that you enjoy our conversation and it helps motivate you to get creating.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/defendthedarkroom/DefendTheDarkroomSandyKing-April2_1.mp3

Please visit Sandy’s website …. www.sandykingphotography.com


Biography…


Sandy King is a photo historian and photographer of the landscape. He works primarily in hand coated photographic processes, including carbon transfer, molding a printing process of the early days of photography with contemporary tools of the digital age to create his unique form of art. As a fine art photographer Sandy has found, as have others, that making a photograph by hand is a fascinating adventure in which one has maximum control over the printmaking syntax, which determine the final, tangible qualities of the photograph as object, including its color, texture, tonal scale and reflective qualities.  

Sandy’s work has been exhibited in Canada, China, Mexico and Turkey as well as the US, and has been published widely in magazines such as Photovision, Silvershotz, View Camera and Looking Glass.

He has also written and published on both the history of photography and on alternative printmaking.

His major publications include El impresionismo fotográfico en España: Una historia de la técnica y de la estética de la fotografía pictorialista, in Archivos de la Fotografía, Vol. IV, No. 1. Zarautz (Spain): Photomuseum (Argazki Euskal Museo), 2000, Schmidt de las Heras: Fotografías 1944-1960. La Coruña (Spain): Xunta de Galicia, 1999, Handcrafted: The Art and Practice of the Handmade Print, Zhejiang Photographic Publishing Company, Hangzhou, 1st edition 2014, 2nd edition with English appendices, 2015,  The Carbon Print, an e-book co-authored with John Lockhart, and Carbon Transfer Printing, co-authored with Don Nelson and John Lockaart and published by Routledge/Focal Press in 2019.




Pagoda



White Towns landscape

Seaweed

Surf birds


Storm Coast Galica


Songyang County

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