Divinity School - handmade silver-chemistry photograph

Wendy Stone makes her photographs of Oxford slowly on film and paper using remarkable cameras and silver-based photographic chemistry, processes and printing. Her cameras range from 60 to 130 years old and she uses roll film, sheet film, paper and even glass plates to create images.

This view of Oxford's Divinity School, part of the Bodleian Library, was taken with her Sanderson quarter-plate camera, which is over 120 years old.

Wendy says: "This beautiful hall is usually appreciated from inside but, again, the morning light gave me a new view of the ornate carved stone pinnacles on the corners of the Bodleian quadrangle.

"Few visitors reach the back of the Sheldonian Theatre (which may in truth be the front) so I was glad when this one early morning explorer found her way into my photograph."

This print is presented unframed, in a conservation-grade mount

Dimensions: Image 22x29cms, mount 40x50cms

Technical specifications:

- Sanderson quarter-plate camera
- Ilford FP4 quarter plate sheet film
- Film processing in Pyrocat HD
- Darkroom print made at Oxford Darkrooms

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