Laurent Lafolie - Photography laboratory and imaging workshop




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Large Format Platinum-Palladium Prints

Combining digital tools with the manual practice of platinum-palladium printing.

Thanks to the combination of digital tools and manual platinum-palladium printing, it is now possible to make large format contact prints.

To produce these prints, the use of specific tools is essential, some of which have been made to measure: a vacuum exposure unit, a UV exposure unit, an in-sink tray rocking system, etc.

Vacuum exposure unit and UV exposure unit for the large formats

Platinum-palladium print and inkjet negative transparencie 90x175 cm inside vacuum exposure unit, before exposure

Cyanotype prints on cotton paper, 100x160 cm
Hugo Deverchère

Inkjet negative transparencie (front), test print (left) and platinum-palladium print (right), 90x175 cm
Pascal Convert / Galerie Eric Dupont

Large formats

The workshop configuration allows to make contact prints up to 1.30m in width and 2.10m in length.

Platinum-palladium print on cotton paper, 110x195 cm
Pascal Convert / Galerie Eric Dupont

Platinum-palladium print on cotton paper, 92x120 cm
Hughes Dubois

Pure platinum print on cotton paper, 120x180 cm
Dove Allouche / GB Agency

Bâmiyân Panorama

A picture 1.6m high and 16m long.

At the end of 2016, artist Pascal Convert and the Le Fresnoy Contemporary Arts Studio asked the workshop to make a palladium print of a panoramic image representing the cliff in Afghanistan where the Bâmiyân Buddhas used to be before they were destroyed.

Measuring 1.60m high and 16.00m long, this image was printed in March and April 2017 in the form of fifteen 160x106cm panels.

Panorama Pascal Convert / Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains

Processing of the prints
For Pascal Convert / Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (National Studio of Contemporary Arts)

Palladium print on cotton paper, 160x1600cm, 15 panels measuring 160x106cm - Galerie Eric Dupont
Pascal Convert / Galerie Eric Dupont

Palladium print on cotton paper, 160x1600cm, 15 panels measuring 160x106cm - Musée Guimet
Pascal Convert / Galerie Eric Dupont


On Video

Printing of Pascal Convert’s Bâmiyân Panorama project

Printing of Hughes Dubois project
Platinum-palladium print on cotton paper, 92x120 cm

Exhibition views of Pascal Convert’s Bâmiyân Panorama project
Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (National Studio of Contemporary Arts)

Exhibition views of Pascal Convert’s Bâmiyân Panorama project
Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet (MNAAG)

Laurent Lafolie - Photography laboratory and imaging workshop

12, rue Orbe
64270 Salies-de-Béarn - France

C +33 (0)6 32 22 51 11 - T +33 (0)5 59 38 99 60
email : lafolie.laurent@orange.fr

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