Platinum Palladium artworks in a size not yet realized
Using a special technique, several prints are joined together to create a completely new outstanding impressive work of art.
It refines photography, lifts it out of the flood of images of everyday life. The Prints give you the feeling that you can enter and touch the photographed objects. Platinum Palladium wraps this world in velvet. It transforms reality into a dream.
It refines photography, lifts it out of the flood of images of everyday life. The Prints give you the feeling that you can enter and touch the photographed objects. Platinum Palladium wraps this world in velvet. It transforms reality into a dream.
The Platinum-Palladium process is the most stable and aesthetically rewarding of all black and white photographic printing techniques. Produced by coating specially manufactured paper with a light-sensitive emulsion containing Platinum and Palladium salts, these prints exhibit an expanded tonal range, three-dimensionality, and a uniquely luminous quality.
All in all, a great challenge, especially in the homogeneity of the individual sheets, especially in the quiet and lighter areas, to name just one.
All in all, a great challenge, especially in the homogeneity of the individual sheets, especially in the quiet and lighter areas, to name just one.
Using a special technique, several prints are joined together to create a completely new outstanding impressive work of art.
"Bull with two Birds" Kenya 2017
6 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints
Signed, titled and numbered
Sheet size 76 x 56 cm / 30 x 22 inch
Total image size 152 x 168 cm / 59.8 x 66.1 inch (unframed)
Beauty for eternity
But that's what's so appealing, because in the end something truly unique emerges, which he wants to transfer into the world of photography - in particular into his favored genre of wildlife photography.
But that's what's so appealing, because in the end something truly unique emerges, which he wants to transfer into the world of photography - in particular into his favored genre of wildlife photography.
"Cut in Stone" Kenya 2019
6 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints
Signed, titled and numbered
Sheet size 76 x 56 cm / 30 x 22 inch
Total image size 152 x 168 cm / 59.8 x 66.1 inch (unframed)
For many years now, Joachim Schmeisser has been documenting the unique beauty and importance of African big game and fighting for attention and conservation of this particularly endangered species. Photography can go a long way in making people aware of this very important issue.
The Platinum Palladium Print process which is called "beauty for eternity" is in the end the logical consequence in the realization of his photographic intention.