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Anthotypes: The Complete Guide to Making Photographs with Plants and Sunlight
Learn this eco-friendly photographic process in a definitive, step-by-step guide — from selecting and preparing plants to creating and preserving beautiful prints made with sunlight. Discover how to make emulsions from pigments in plants, fruits, and flowers, choose suitable papers, and print vibrant colours in the sun.
This much-anticipated expanded edition of Anthotypes has been developed through several years of testing and teaching and is suitable for both beginners and experienced artists.
Anthotypes will make you look at flowers and plants in a whole new light, and this book will teach you how to create prints from objects, plants, or digital photographs, select suitable plants and paper, address chemical considerations, explore methods for colour variations, and gain deeper insight into the longevity of your images.
Rich with artist examples, scientific insights, and practical guidance, Anthotypes bridges a 19th-century photographic discovery with 21st-century eco-friendly creative practice.
“Anthotypes captures the poetry of making photographs with light and living colour. It reminds us that photography can be fragile, playful, and deeply connected to nature – an alchemy of time and transformation. Having worked with the first edition, I’ve seen how invaluable this book is to artists and experimenters alike, and this new edition builds beautifully on that legacy – an inspiring guide to one of photography’s most magical processes.”
– Sue Wright, Chair, the Royal Photographic Society, Women in Photography.
This much-anticipated expanded edition of Anthotypes has been developed through several years of testing and teaching and is suitable for both beginners and experienced artists.
Anthotypes will make you look at flowers and plants in a whole new light, and this book will teach you how to create prints from objects, plants, or digital photographs, select suitable plants and paper, address chemical considerations, explore methods for colour variations, and gain deeper insight into the longevity of your images.
Rich with artist examples, scientific insights, and practical guidance, Anthotypes bridges a 19th-century photographic discovery with 21st-century eco-friendly creative practice.
“Anthotypes captures the poetry of making photographs with light and living colour. It reminds us that photography can be fragile, playful, and deeply connected to nature – an alchemy of time and transformation. Having worked with the first edition, I’ve seen how invaluable this book is to artists and experimenters alike, and this new edition builds beautifully on that legacy – an inspiring guide to one of photography’s most magical processes.”
– Sue Wright, Chair, the Royal Photographic Society, Women in Photography.
172 pages, Paperback
Published February 6, 2026
About the author
Malin Fabbri
17 books20 followersAlternativePhotography.com is all about historical photographic methods in use today. Our aim is to teach photographers using methods and processes other than digital photography. Artists can learn how to print photographs with these techniques. The website has information on many processes, galleries for inspiration and much more. The books we publish are for those who want to develop a deeper understanding on the process - or just like the feel of a book better than a webpage.
Malin Fabbri moved from Sweden to London to study. She earned an MA in Design at Central St. Martin's, but publishing her thesis felt more like a beginning than an end. Malin decided to combine her academic and practical experience and started AlternativePhotography.com in 1999. The website still maintains its origins as a source of information and research for alternative photographic processes and represents almost 400 artists. Malin actively manages the expansion of the site as editor. She researches alternative photographic processes, makes her own prints and runs workshops. Malin has also worked professionally with big media names like Time magazine and CNBC Europe. Malin is the co-author of Blueprint to cyanotypes and From pinhole to print, the editor of the alternative photography art book Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I representing 115 artists working in alternative photographic processes, and the author of Anthotypes - Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants.
Malin Fabbri moved from Sweden to London to study. She earned an MA in Design at Central St. Martin's, but publishing her thesis felt more like a beginning than an end. Malin decided to combine her academic and practical experience and started AlternativePhotography.com in 1999. The website still maintains its origins as a source of information and research for alternative photographic processes and represents almost 400 artists. Malin actively manages the expansion of the site as editor. She researches alternative photographic processes, makes her own prints and runs workshops. Malin has also worked professionally with big media names like Time magazine and CNBC Europe. Malin is the co-author of Blueprint to cyanotypes and From pinhole to print, the editor of the alternative photography art book Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I representing 115 artists working in alternative photographic processes, and the author of Anthotypes - Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants.
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