Return to the mystery and serendipity of making photographic prints by hand! Anthotypes, a kind of sun print, are made with sunlight and juices extracted from common flowers, fruits, and vegetables. The plant chemicals (anthocyanins, carotenoids, and flavonoids) produce fascinating natural colors.

The plant-based emulsion is applied to paper, then dried, and contact-printed with an object or positive transparency before being exposed to the sun for days or weeks. Anthotypes (from the Greek, meaning “flower print”) were first made in the early 1800s as an attempt to create color in photographic imagery. Due to its ephemeral and unpredictable nature, the process was abandoned for more stable processes. Today, the anthotype is experiencing a resurgence and new appreciation as an ecofriendly process. These prints are of the present; they are as fleeting, fragile, and exquisite as a garden in bloom.