©Malin Fabbri, Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

Malin Fabbri has recently released Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight.  Malin Fabbri is the editor and founder of AlternativePhotography.com, author of several books on alternative photographic processes, and experiments with a variety of techniques such as anthotypes, cyanotypes, photopolymer gravure, chlorophyll prints, lumens, cyanograms, photosynthesis, pinholes and solargraphs.

The author states: Anthotypes will make us look at plants in a whole new light. Learn this eco-friendly photographic process in the definitive, step-by-step guide – from selecting and preparing plants to creating and preserving beautiful prints made with sunlight. Discover how to make emulsions from pigments in plants, fruits, and flowers, choose the best papers, and print in vibrant colours in the sun.

Create prints from objects, plants, or digital photographs. The book also offers methods on how to tone prints to different colours and insights into the permanence of your images. Perfect for both beginners and experienced artists.

Rich with artist examples, scientific insights, practical advice, and inspiring examples from artists worldwide, Anthotypes connects 19th-century photographic discovery with 21st-century eco-friendly creativity.

The book contains an extensive section on photograms.

Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight” is available in both paperback and coilbound, to easier have it open on the table next to your work.

©Malin Fabbri: Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight, Paperback and Coilbound

©Malin Fabbri:, Photograms, from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

Malin Fabbri grew up in Sweden, and in her early twenties moved to London to study. She earned an M.A. in Design at Central St. Martin’s School of Design, but publishing her thesis felt more like a beginning than an end. Malin decided to combine her academic and practical experience and started AlternativePhotography.com in 2000. The website still maintains its origins as a source of information and research for alternative photographic processes and represents almost 400 artists. Malin actively manages the expansion of the site as editor. She researches alternative photographic processes, makes her own prints and runs workshops. Malin has also worked professionally with big media names like Time magazine and CNBC Europe. Malin is the co-author of Blueprint to cyanotypes and From pinhole to print, the editor of the alternative photography art book Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I representing 115 artists working in alternative photographic processes, and the author of Blueprint to cyanotypes – Exploring a historical alternative photographic process, a beginners book on cyanotypes, Anthotypes – Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants, which is the only book dedicated to the anthotype process, Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1 which contains the anthotype research of 100 artists from World Anthotype Day, and creator of two notebooks Anthotype notes – Document your anthotype process, and Cyanotype notes – Document your cyanotype process. She has a strong interest in all alternative processes. Malin now lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and has two sons, Maximillian and Ruben.

©Malin Fabbri, Negatives, from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

Negatives and positives is something many artists struggle with, and the book includes a step by step section on how to make them.

©Malin Fabbri, from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

©Malin Fabbri, Flowers and petals, from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

©Malin Fabbri, Contact printing, from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

©Malin Fabbri, Changing ph from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

©Malin Fabbri, Berries and fruit, from Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight

©Malin Fabbri, Anthotypes – The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight