Cyanotype

Cyanotype – a photographic process

In this category you will find materials for cyanotype printing – ready-to-use kits, individual chemicals, papers, films for making digital negatives, and tools for coating the sensitizer. The products are suitable both for beginners and for photographers who prepare their own solutions, negatives, and toned prints.

Cyanotype is one of the oldest and most distinctive alternative photographic processes, based on the light sensitivity of iron compounds. The classic process produces images in characteristic blue tones, but cyanotype prints can also be toned to achieve a much wider range of colours, from deep navy and violet to brown and darker, almost black tones.

What you will find in this category

• cyanotype starter kits,
• ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide,
• ready-made cyanotype solutions and chemicals,
• materials for toning cyanotype prints,
• papers suitable for cyanotype,
• films for making digital negatives,
• rollers, brushes, and other tools for coating the sensitizer.

Why cyanotype?

Cyanotype does not require a traditional photographic darkroom or an enlarger, which makes it one of the most accessible historical processes for beginners. At the same time, it offers considerable scope for more advanced work – from controlling the choice of paper and negative to toning and experimenting with the final character of the print.

When processed and stored correctly, cyanotype prints can have very good permanence. The process can be used on a variety of supports, and its distinctive image layer makes it suitable not only for photography, but also for printmaking and contemporary artistic practice.