Darkroom

Copper chloride, hydrogen peroxide, and the reality that some processes can't be made green—only less bad
Moving beyond standard processing to examine lith printing—where extreme dilution creates an unexpectedly favourable environmental story
Comparing RA-4 colour printing with scanning and digital output—which is actually more sustainable?
Colour negative processing adds real environmental concerns beyond black-and-white—but silver remains the dominant issue
Practical interventions ranked by actual environmental impact—silver recovery, water efficiency, and the hierarchy of what actually matters
Why the developer-versus-developer debate misses the point entirely—fixer contains silver at concentrations millions of times higher than lethal thresholds for aquatic life
Examining the environmental claims around coffee, wine, and plant-based film developers—what the chemistry says, what the toxicology shows, and why the conversation might be missing the point
Applying chromoskedasic Sabattier printing to photographs of Washington DC's Metro system and monuments—workflow, results, and lessons learned
The physics and chemistry behind chromoskedasic Sabattier printing—why silver nanoparticles produce colour through light scattering
An introduction to chromoskedasic Sabattier printing—creating colour from black and white materials through physics alone