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Original handmade print in the darkroom using the platinum palladium printing process on Ilford Tesuki Washi Ichibei paper. There will be an edition of 8 copies of this print, but none of them will look the same as they are all made by hand.

Platinum Palladium is worldwide regarded, certainly by me, as on the most beautiful printing processes due to its tonal scale. Unlike the silver gelatin printing process, platinum lies directly on the papers’ surface. This results in a perfectly matte image. These prints are also the most durable of all photographic processes; platinum and palladium metals are extremely stable, even more so than gold, which is often used as an archival toner.

Ilford Platinachrome Tesuki-Washi Ichibei paper is a platinum printing paper based on handmade Japanese paper made by ICHIBEI IWANO who is a living national treasure when it comes to Washi. He is following the Japanese traditional way of making Washi using 100% of the Japanese Kozo by hand. It is a platinum printing paper on which Ilford Japan has given platinum print suitability with its own technology. The really special quality of the texture in combination with the platinum palladium chemistry makes this work last forever.