My name is Olivia luca Jospé, I'm a photographer and printer based in London. My love for cyanotype making stems from merging traditional techniques with contemporary visions. By focusing on my film photography, which is heavily rooted in portraiture within music, fashion and street photography, I’m able to take what starts off as a realistic depiction of the world around me and project it onto an abstract dreamscape of blue hues. It becomes so much bigger than the moment originally shot in my film camera. I love working with traditional processes because, in doing so, I feel part of the collective history of the medium, which makes contributing to it more meaningful to me. It’s comforting seeing the evolution of the process and knowing that the possibilities for experimentation are truly endless.

The hands-on nature of mixing and coating chemicals and printing outside in the sun have reminded me how much I craved making something physical and tangible. Each print I work on, even when made from the same photograph, will be unique; an individuality derived from the exposure time, strength of the sun or thickness of chemicals, all of which affect the tonalities within the sun print.