My first print from this year’s Dia de Los Muertos and the novenarios (nine nights of processionals) at Olvera Street and the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument.
This year I used my Ventura 66 medium format folding camera, essentially an ultra compact large format camera with a fixed lens and more limited movements, coupled with the film/developer formula of HP5 and D-76 that has worked for me in past years. Those tools combined with Adox MCC 110 silver gelatin paper, which is able to hold so much more subtle detail from the shadows to the mid-range tones including the highlights, have combined to make printing the rolls of film from this year a revelatory practice that has inspired me to go back and revisit previous years to see what I missed before adopting this new paper into my workflow.
This is a scan of a work print on Adox MCC 110 silver gelatin paper, shot on Ilford HP5 medium format film with a Ventura 66 camera.
Timothy Dahlum 