About Platinum Prints

Platinum prints are highly sought after by collectors because of their tonal range, their surface quality, their three-dimensional presence and their extraordinary archival permanence.

A platinum print provides the greatest and most beautiful tonal range of any printing method in black-and-white photography, displaying a wonderful three-dimensional presence, a smooth gradation of tones and delicate highlight and shadow detail. No other photographic process is able to render tones in such a delicate and subtle way. Where silver prints display blocked shadows and featureless highlights, platinum unveils subtle and delicate shades of tone and detail, which range from charcoal warm blacks to expanded mid tones and brilliant silvery highlights. The result is prints that seem alive and three-dimensional.

Platinum prints are not only enjoyed visually. Their tactile quality, attributed to the nature of the special handmade cotton rag papers with which these prints are crafted, adds to the overall experience.

Platinum printing is a totally handmade process, delicate and challenging, for which the highest levels of skill, knowledge and sensibility from the printer are needed in order to create a truly master print. 

Another distinctive characteristic of platinum prints can be found in their uniqueness, a consequence of the thoroughly handmade nature of the whole process. In fact, no two platinum prints will ever be completely the same, and each of them will stand as a unique object of art. In this way, platinum prints stand apart from the world of mass-produced photographs in silver or digital output.

Platinum prints are also the most durable of all photographic processes and one of the most permanent objects of art in which someone can invest. Platinum metal is the most stable element in the world, more stable even than gold, and it is estimated that a platinum photographic print, properly made, can last as long as the paper it is printed on exists, what can mean up to several thousand years. This makes platinum prints one of the most permanent artworks available and the only truly archival photographic process.