Associate Professor Stephanie Paine’s photographic series, Helios, is featured in the first edition of a new Routledge publication, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer, written by Morgan Post.

Part I: Lens(less)-Based Imagemakers: The Pinhole Effect includes examples of her work and an interview detailing her creative practice and motivations. As part of a book-launch event, she was invited to speak at the Penumbra Foundation in Manhattan on September 29 alongside another featured artist, Professor Pradip Malde (Sewanee The University of the South).

“A comprehensive textbook, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer explores the ways in which the materiality and science of photography and aesthetic concepts of contemporary photography can work together in an accessible way.” (publisher's description)

Traditional textbooks of the medium have focused on technical instruction or photographic history. However, Post addresses these topics through the perspective of alternative photographic artists. The author interviewed over thirty individuals who explore the full capacity of photography; often-reviving nineteenth-century processes that emerged in the medium’s early years and reinventing them through the lens of contemporary subject matter. The book explores processes such as wet plate collodion, cyanotype, and gum bichromate, as well digital applications. Anyone with an interest can visit the companion website, www.ContemporaryAltPhoto.com. Launching late fall, the website will offer free instructional and self-guided videos of all the techniques discussed in the book.

Paine also secured a generous donation to the photography concentration from Post in memoriam of his family member who had a deep passion for the medium. The M.J. Keller Legacy Trust will be used to purchase archival inkjet and digital negative printers for the program.