'Girls, and tomorrow and the earth'— is a handmade artist's book created during a residency at the Maze Collective Studio. It combines original albumen prints, cyanotype prints, and small fragments of writing.
Learning these 19th-century processes—albumen printmaking, cyanotype—was an act of slowing down. In a time of overwhelming image consumption via our digital tools, this was a way to stay with an image: to coat, expose, wash, and wait.
Albumen printmaking was one of the first methods of commercial mass photographic printing, dominant until the early 1900s. Working with it—and learning cyanotype from a fellow resident—offered a return to the early, tactile origins of photographic memory.
The book is now part of the Alkazi Foundation's collection.
