KEITH TAYLOR platinum, polymer-photogravure and silver prints

My personal photography has been widely exhibited across the US and the UK, I am a two-time recipient of the Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and my photographs are held in many private and corporate collections. I write for photographic publications, and occasionally lecture and teach on the historical processes.

Completely self-taught, I started my career as a monochrome printer in London in 1979 printing advertising, fashion and editorial images for photographers. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s I gained recognition as one of a handful of printers in London who specialized in printing exhibitions and portfolios, and for producing prints that won numerous awards from the Association of Photographers, the British Picture Editors’ Awards and the Ilford Photographic Awards.

During this time in London I became increasingly interested in the historical, or alternative, processes and I now specialize in platinum-palladium, polymer photogravure, 3-color gum dichromate and toned gelatin silver prints, both for my own work and for clients in the US and the UK.

Where possible I use contemporary techniques to simplify these traditional processes; substituting safer, more environmentally friendly chemicals for the more toxic originals and using digital techniques to make the large negatives and positives these processes require.