Salt print

Salt Printing – Chemicals and Materials for Salt Prints

Salt printing is one of the earliest photographic processes on paper, developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 19th century. It produces distinctive matte prints with warm brown tones and a delicate, painterly quality.

In this category, you will find chemicals and materials for making salt prints, including silver nitrate and other ingredients used in the preparation and processing of the paper.

The process involves coating the paper with a chloride-containing solution and then sensitising it with silver nitrate. The prepared paper is contact printed under a negative using UV light or sunlight. The image forms directly during exposure, making salt printing a printing-out process that does not require development.

Salted Paper Printing – See the Process

Discover the fascinating world of salted paper printing in this film by Radosław Brzozowski from the "Photography's Forgotten Ways" series. Explore one of the earliest photographic printing processes and see how beautiful prints with distinctive warm brown tones are created.