What you will learn?
You will learn how to turn developed film and paper back into light-sensitive material using copper and salt, re-exposing and re-processing what was already used to produce new images. From mixing and controlling rehalogenation bleach to working with ultra-slow, blue-sensitive emulsions in a camera or contact frame, you will gain a complete, working method for giving silver a second life. ReadSilver Reset and start making photographs again from what you already have.
Featured Artists
The guide will periodically include images by artists who use the Silver Reste technique. If you’d like to see your work included, send an image you love and it may be added to the guide.
Bernardo Pérez
Reused 35mm negative
Bruce Dunbar
Reused watergram on paper
Andrew K. Thompson
Reused X-ray sheet as camera negative
Give your used film and paper a second life! Reset silver and make images from it again.
Silver Reset is the only practical, step-by-step guide that teaches how to chemically return developed silver back to a light-sensitive state using copper and salt, allowing exposed, fogged, or printed film and paper to be used again for new photographic images.
$10.50