“Your portfolio is eerily familiar, with the textures and tonalities of the very first light markings on light sensitive substrates… I imagined, while contemplating your images, a future observation of 1000-year old photographs of what the moon used to look like before it disappeared from our solar system. Your work inspired fantasy and pathos in… Read More
Cristina Saez’s portfolio was chosen as a Work of Merit by Christopher James in the 2024 Denis Roussel Awards. “This portfolio represents, I believe, the essence of what motivated and inspired Denis Roussel… a blending of magic, creative human response with the barest of materials and collaboration with the natural world and what… Read More
2018-2023
The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to honor the legacy of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on the historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. No inkjet prints. Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come… Read More
The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to honor the legacy of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on the historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come in from across… Read More
The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to help continue the legacy and celebrate the life of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come… Read More
Image in banner and on poster by Denis Roussel Thank you to Rachel Roussel-Diamond and family for your encouragement and support. A special and thank you to Josephine Sacabo for your support of the Denis Roussel Award and your support of Rfotofolio. Thank you to the following individuals and businesses. Carol Boss and Hahnemühle… Read More
Ambrotypes – Of Breath and Dust – You write, “I seize the moment of my fading breath and directly address the legacy of a photograph as memento mori. Each breath is captured digitally, printed as a digital transparency, and finally transferred onto glass. Just as every breath is unique, so is every photograph.” The conversation regarding the… Read More
The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to help continue the legacy and celebrate the life of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come… Read More
Some of the artist we have met from past Denis Roussel Awards.
“This photographer invented/developed a technique involving cyanotype printed onto black and white gelatin silver paper. The statement reveals great resourcefulness in working without a darkroom in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.” Jesseca Ferguson
Susan Bryant was selected as one of the photographers of merit in the 2018 Denis Roussel Award. We are pleased to share her work and words with you today. Please tell us a little about yourself.
Diana Bloomfield was chosen as one of the Photographers of Merit by Jill Enfield in this years Denis Roussel Award. Please click on images toes a larger size. In the Old Garden “My grandparents’ house, set back from the street, right in the middle of town, and stood on a couple of acres. A… Read More
The Thomas Fire Burn series are unique silver gelatin prints toned with ash and sulfuric water from hot springs at the origin point of the fire, Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula.
Banner image by Denis Roussel The 2018 Denis Award application period is now over. Thank you for your interest. Ambrotype, Bromoil, Color Carbon, Chemigram, Cyanotype, Gum Bichromate, Kallitype, Mordançage, Photogravure, Platinum, Palladium, Tintype, Wet Plate Collodion, Dry Plate, Silver Gelatin, Salted Paper Prints …. What is your historic process ?
