Interfering the development process

Hi to all of you,

For some years now I do analog photography, and I'm still looking for a specific liquid or solid (powder) , that you can find in the kitchen or buy easily.
I would like to use it during the development process in or out the developer tray and while the paper is still wet.

The Special properties this product should have , is that it should interfere with the development process in a way that is visually noticeable .
That could be a distortion of the chemical process visible. Or a shift in color (black or white).

"video JF Flamey"

On the video you can see the Belgium photographer at work. Jean François Flamey. From minute 3 , 40 seconds you can see him using products to alter the feel and look of the photo
, this all during development.

Please feel free to post your experiences...

silvercloud2323 said:

this all during development

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It looks to me he's doing this after the print has been developed and fixed. If this had been during development, he'd get all black prints with no image
I'd suggest to start by picking up a book about toning B&W prints. You'll find a plethora of information in there that you can twist to your heart's content.

As Koraks states, and if the automatic translation of the video is to be trusted, the photographer modifies existing prints over a long period of time with undisclosed materials.

In one section, he even says the materials are random and varied.

The tray is in a window, in full illumination from the outside; no print in the development phase would survive this exposure during development.

Have you tried actually contacting the artist?

He is solely using digital capture until you briefly see what appears to be a Polaroid camera, which he holds up to his eye to shoot for around 6 seconds. No sign, anywhere, of him printing anything in a darkroom from a film negative. None of this makes any sense to me.

Good point. There's a chance that some or even most of his work involves torturing inkjet prints. Heck, why not - it's a valid idea.

I do see at least one Polaroid emulsion lift in the video and one or two additional images that look like instant stuff.