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sometimes uses tea bags for a sepia
finish. Krueger describes the cyano-type
process as simple, straightfor-ward,
and traditional, yet endless in
its possibilities.
“I don’t want to come across as
someone who’s saying I’ve turned
into a traditionalist all of a sudden
because this is the purest way,”
he says. “I’m just saying I want to
respect the past and I want to use
that and also bring it into the future.
There are no limits, I like that.”
Above: Wilmington photographer
Curtis Krueger explores Oakdale
Cemetery with his pinhole camera
in January. Right: Cypress Trees and
Osprey, 12 x 15 inches, cyanotype
hand printed on watercolor paper,
stained in a bath of black tea.
ALLISON POTTER
