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Genevieve Maynard
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Pilates instructor, photographer, historical print processes. Australian, living in Johannesburg. She/her.

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The 6th Annual Barrydale Analogue Photo Festival is on from 12 - 20th December in the Western Cape. I'm showing some work printed using the cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, and salted paper processes and will be speaking at 2pm on Saturday 13th.

#altprintprocess #photography
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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And a great weekend in the dimroom. Four new Van Dyke brown analogue handprints.

Top left: Maggiana, Lago di Como
Top right: Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore, Palermo, Sicilia

Bottom left and right: the cloisters and the decommissioned church of San Giovanni degli Eremiti, Palermo, Sicily
Four brown and white images. A motorcycle near the wall of an old building; two men at work in a church with dramatic lighting; arches of an old cloisters; external view of an old church with Arab-Norman domes.
May 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Holiyays!
A view from the departure terminal through a large window in a cafe. There are aeroplanes parked on the wet tarmac. It's cloudy.
March 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Jozi, autumn 2025.

#photography #bnw
A black and white photo of the interior of a house. There is a pot plant on top of a long, low box, and light coming through a window that shines across a rug and floor tiles. In the foreground is an acoustic guitar in its case. The lid is open. Also, a small dog bowl.
March 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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It's not an easy read and sometimes extraordinarily frustrating. Hard to keep track of all the players, and often annoying that there aren't more illustrations of Caravaggio's works as Robb's descriptions are so evocative.

#books
February 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Commissioned work in situ with repurposed timber bespoke frames. Totes fab.

#photography #altprintprocess #vandykebrown
Two brown and white images, one of a gallery (arcade) in Bologna with a man walking away through the archway and the other of a quiet canal with buildings in each side in Venice, in light brown frames hanging in a wall.
February 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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'Tabacchi' #vandykebrown test print for new series #altprintprocess #alternativephotography_com #photography
A brown and white print of an image of the doorway of a Tabacchi in Italy.
January 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Me, examining new followers. Block block block, blockity block block.
A black and white drawing of a woman dressed in Edwardian era clothes looking through a microscope.
January 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Years to take the various images, months to select and edit, many weeks of making negatives and testing, and finally, about two weeks to make the prints, apply Renaissance Wax and buff each one.

I laughed with absolute joy when I saw them all together for the first time.

#photography
A collection of brown and white and blue and white photographs on a black background.
January 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Johannesburg, December 25, 2024.
Two large cartoon-like inflatables - one santa, one penguin in a striped pointy cap - wave at the viewer from the first floor balcony of a yellow house
January 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Van Dyke brown prints drying. Work for a new series.

#altprintprocess #vandykebrown #photography
Eight brown and white prints hung with multicoloured plastic clothespegs on a line. The prints sre 18 x 13 cm and are of various street photography/landscape images.
January 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Johannesburg, December 25, 2024.

#photography
A pale late afternoon sky with some clouds and underneath two roof peaks can be seen above a high white wallwith a large dark gate in the centre of the frame.
December 29, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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The Spanish Quarters, Naples, 2022. Cyanotype test print for new series.

#photography #altprintprocess
A blue and white print of a photo of the Spanish Quarters in Naples. The narrow paved lane way is busy with scooters and people. There are tall buildings festooned with laundry, awnings, and signage on each side of the lane. It's late afternoon.
December 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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The view towards Varenna from Carcente, Lake Como, Italy 2019. Cyanotype test print for new series.

#altprintprocess #cyanotype
A blue and white image taken in the middle of the day from a high vantage point. In the foreground in sharp focus is a chimney on the right and a thin horizontal line of tiled roof. In the background and in soft focus are Lake Como and mountains. The sky has puffy clouds.
December 12, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Mandello del Lario, Italy, 2024.

#cyanotype test print on Hahnemühle Harmony

#photography #altprintprocess
A blue and white print. In the left hand foreground is a rough wall with an ornamental cement garden-type bowl with a tiny shrivelled plant trying to grow in it. In the background is a lake and a large mountain across the other side. Tendrils from a plant intrude in the right foreground.
December 2, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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Venice, 2022. Cyanotype test print on Hahnemühle Harmony, work for a new series.

#photography #altprintprocess
A blue and white image of the Grand Canal. There are old three storey palazzi lining each side. The early morning light is soft and it's a long exposure which makes the water appear silky smooth. There are a few puffy clouds in the sky.
December 1, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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A partial ancient Roman floor mosaic of a head of Medusa
November 28, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Work in progress - test prints for a new series.

Van Dyke brown on Fabriano Artistico.

#photography #altprintprocess
Fourteen brown and white images from various urban locations in Italy laid out like a grid. The images have an irregular dark brown border (it looks, and is, hand-made), and the paper is slightly curled.
November 28, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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The learning curve from Canon to Fujifilm OS gobbled up the day.
A photo of a Fujifilm X-T4 with lens. Bookcase with books in the background
November 22, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Dennis da Silva at the Alternative Print Workshop here in Johannesburg very kindly gave me a sheet of Hahnemühle Platinum Rag to test. It's made for alt process printing, so unsurprisingly it performs beautifully.

#photography #altprintprocess
A brown and white print of a photograph taken through a wide stone arch up in the mountains above Lake Como. The arch frames the mountains, lake and sky. A brown and white print of a photo taken of Le Zitelle church in Venice, Italy. It's a side-on view showing the dome and the bell tower with an ominously cloudy sky in the background.
November 16, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Van Dyke brown test print for new series.

Man walking, Bologna 2019.
A brown and white print of a photo taken in Bologna. There are brush marks and tape marks on the print showing a little of the process. A man is walking away from the POV through a portico (a covered walkway of arches).
November 14, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Van Dyke brown print, Venice, May 2024.
A brown and white print of a photo of a canal with a bridge over it and buildings on each side and light reflecting off the water.
October 25, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Gecko, Van Dyke brown print.
A brown and white photo of a dessicated gecko taken from above on a speckled and scarred background
September 3, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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Ebook not available in South Africa. Nope.

Will try using a VPN. Honestly, this is a bullshit move by publishers about royalties and licensing. Speaking as a former musician it's precisely where the music industry failed so badly at an international level thirty years ago.
April 11, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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Van Dyke Brown print. Hand-printed, about one hour to make each print excluding taking the photo, editing it, making the negative and so on.
A brown and white print of a photo of an aedicula taken in low light. There are lights inside the aedicula, and the area around it is quite dim.
December 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM