What photographic processes do you handle?
Photography · Revised 3 August 2026
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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