What photographic processes do you handle?

Photography · Revised 3 August 2026

Nineteenth-century albumen photographic prints mounted on card beside a cotton glove

The full historic range: daguerreotypes, salt prints, albumen prints, platinum and palladium prints, carbon prints, gelatin silver prints, dye transfer and chromogenic colour, and contemporary pigment prints. The process is always stated in the catalogue because it governs both value and conservation.

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