These prints are made using the lith printing process, where black and white photographic paper is developed in highly diluted lith chemistry. The results are unpredictable—often soft, grainy, and deeply tonal, with warm highlights and gritty shadows.

I’m drawn to lith printing because it mirrors the emotional atmosphere I’m trying to hold in my work. The process requires patience, repetition, and a willingness to let go of control. Each print emerges slowly, and no two are ever the same.

I came to lith printing by chance after receiving some old fogged photographic paper. Someone suggested trying them with lith chemicals and the rest is history. I fell in love with the slow infectious development and the variety of finishes you can get from the process. Some of my favourite darkroom prints have come from this process—images that can feel quiet, loud, or just on the edge of dissolving into nothingness.