Oliver

About author

Photographer with a strong liking for the technique of lith printing. Lives and works in Nuremberg, Germany.

Fellow of the anaLoge and thereby a strong believer that combining our talent and knowledge is key to reaching higher.

One of the people running the K4 Photo Lab for the City of Nuremberg, a public B&W photography darkroom and a great place for collaboration and discussion about photography or society.

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Author's posts

Winter leaf.

Nuremberg, January 2021. Printed last Friday. The Moersch developer was diluted 35A+35B+5D+1000Water. The paper is very slow and the color of the warm dev soup seems to invade into the whole sheet of paper.

Baleal Triptych. At the Sea.

Baleal Triptych. Portugal, August 2023. Darkroom lith prints (working prints scanned side by side) on 5x7 inch Fomabrom Variant IV 123 FB.

Impressions from Coimbra, visual triad part 1. Portugal, August 2023.

Darkroom lith print (working print) on Agfa Portriga Rapid PRW 118-1, dilution 35 A + 35 B + 1000 water + 200 old brown, Moersch lith chemicals.

Impressions from Coimbra, visual triad part 2. Portugal, August 2023.

Darkroom lith print (working print) on Agfa Portriga Rapid PRW 118-1, dilution 35 A + 35 B + 1000 water + 200 old brown, Moersch lith chemicals.

Impressions from Coimbra, visual triad part 3. Portugal, August 2023.

Darkroom lith print (working print) on Agfa Portriga Rapid PRW 118-1, dilution 35 A + 35 B + 1000 water + 200 old brown, Moersch lith chemicals.

Nazaré, Portugal, August 2023.

Nazaré. Portugal, August 2023. Taken on Fuji Acros 100 II. Film developed in D76 (stock), paper developed with Moersch lith chemicals.

Coimbra, Portugal, August 2023.

Yesterday I started to test-print the first negs made on my August trip to Portugal. And I opened a box of this beautiful double weight paper.

6pm light at Battersea, July 2022

London, July 2022. 6pm light. Darkroom lith print on Agfa Portriga Rapid PRK 118. We found that paper in a Nuremberg darkroom that was closed down recently.

9x12 Lith Contact on Kodak Bromesko

Nürnberg, Hinterm Waschhaus, June 2021. Darkroom lith contact on Kodak Bromesko WFL.2D, Moersch lith chemicals. Taken with a Linhof Technika IV on 9x12 Ilford HP5+.

London, July 2022

Second print from the session last Thursday. Darkroom lith print on Foma Neobrom N2111, Moersch lith chemicals.

Candid Café - London, December 2022

Lovely café upstairs from Lux Darkroom where I did the platinum-palladium workshop with 3 friends, led by Constanza Isaza.

Hotel Window View - London, July 2022

Darkroom lith print on Foma Neobrom N2111, Moersch lith chemicals. Taken with a Fuji GSW690iii.

Sunny Spring - Israel, 2011

Israel, 2011. In those grey-light winter months I often like to print negs full of sun.

Southern France

Perpignan, August 2022. Lith print on 12x16 inch Agfa Brovira, Moersch lith chemicals.

Winter Light in E 5th St, New York (Lith on Brovira)

Winter light in E 5th St, New York, 4 years ago. Darkroom lith print on 20x24 inch Agfa Brovira BEH1 5.

Winter Light in E 5th St, New York (Lith)

Winter light in E 5th St, New York, 4 years ago. Darkroom lith print on 20x24 inch Agfa Record Rapid RRH111 4.

Manhatten Skyline (Lith)

Manhatten skyline, January 2019. 20x24 inch darkroom lith print on Kodak Ektalure. Taken with a Cambo Wide and the Schneider-Kreuznach 58XL lens handheld on 4x5 inch Ilford HP5+.

Palm Leaf (Lith)

20x24 inch darkroom lith print on Fomabrom 123 from a 35mm neg. Taken with a 35mm lens on Ilford Delta 100.

Hong Kong Park Leaves (Lith)

Hong Kong Park, August 2018. 20x24 inch darkroom lith print on Fomabrom 123. One of my last large sheets of that lovely paper.

Lith Paper Comparison

Two darkroom lith prints done one-after-another on two different papers. At the bottom you see the base color of the papers, the strips have been put into the fix directly taken from the box.

Paris Collar

Paris, June 2017. Brovira edition of one of my personal favs. Lith print on 12x16 inch Agfa Brovira BEH1 6, Moersch lith chemicals.

On natural language working titles

The language of photography — there is at least one, perhaps there are many, but let’s assume just one with many variants or dialects — it is so rich, so full of possibilities for narration and poetry, providing understanding, joy and fear and so many other flavored feelings.

JULY

July

La Torre de la Luz

The moment looking at that scene felt somewhat otherworldy: I got the fresh smell of the sea in my nose, the sky is full of morning light, the wind is blowing.

MARCH

March

Black Winter Light

Darkroom lith print on Fomatone MG 131. Same lens and print params as decribed for the other prints posted before.

Winter Light - Magdeburg

Darkroom lith print on Fomatone MG 131 (current batch). Dilution with Moersch developer 70A + 35B + 1000 water.

Summer Vibe - Copenhagen

Darkroom lith print on Fomatone MG 131 (current batch). Dilution with Moersch developer 70A + 35B + 1000 water.

Leaf Structure

Since I made that print in December, that picture has been giving me optimism and delight every time I’m looking at it.

Light Kissing Architecture full of Art

That light event was observed, felt and captured after I visited a museum, the museum Lothar Fischer in Neumarkt i.

AUGUST

calendar sheet

The Lure of Lith Printing

I discovered about lith printing with the fascinating portraits done by Anton Corbijn. His book “Star Trak” struck me by the look of the pictures.

FEBRUARY

calendar sheet

No Fear to Fail!

That neg has been staying in my head for more than three years. Didn‘t dare to print it.

Frühlingslichtgefühl

I printed this a week ago. I wanted to see some spring light. With autumn around the corner, my kind of light will get scarcer and scarcer in the next couple of months.

Agaves

Strong light on an agave - I have to respond to it. It’s one of my favorite objects to photograph, on a par with structures of sand and with palm trees.

Color

Sometimes I like to play with color. Last year in Austin, Texas, the colors were so bright and stimulating that I loaded some Fuji Provia 100F and tried to get some shots.

Buena Vista

Buena Vista You know this view from Christian’s earlier pinhole post. It’s the view from one of the windows of the photo lab - taken 2018, when we still resided in the large rooms which currently get renovated.

Travel with Concept

When I travel - Do the Pictures Qualify as my real Photography? In times of the Corona virus and traveling bans, this may be an odd theme.

Silence in Pictures

What I really like is when a picture makes you freeze and feel the silence. When I’m looking at such a picture I tend to freeze myself, silently gazing at the picture, being sucked in by its atmosphere.

Surface and Light

What Makes a Picture? This recent print tells a lot about what drives my photography. More than anything else, I strive to transform my feelings into a picture.