Cameras
35mm Nikon, 6 x 4.5 Mamiya and 6 cm x 6 cm Hasselblad medium format.
Sinar 5 x 4 inches and De Vere and Gandolphy 5 x 7 inches view cameras.

Film
Kodak Panatomic X, Tri X. Agfapan APX25 and 100. Ilford Delta 100. FP4 sheet film.

Film developers
D76/ID11 1+1 and neat for sheet film.

Printing Papers
20 x 16 ins fibre base graded. i.e. not variable contrast.
Ilford Ilfabrom and Gallery. Agfa Record-Rapid.

Paper Developers
Ilford PQ and Contrast FF. Agfa Neutol WA

Toners
Selenium 1+3 to 1+19. Sepia, sulphide and thiorea/sodium hydroxide, and split toned.
All original prints Hypo eliminated anarchival washed.

Photographic Printing Process
I use nine enlargers; tungsten, condenser and cold cathode heads. Three large format, four medium format and two 35mm.
Registration is achieved on a moveable specially made baseboard. Masking is possible at all points of the light path of the enlarger using line film (Agfa Rapidoline Ortho RA710p and Kodak Gravure Positive), photographic prints, opaque (painted onto glass), masking tape (black and white), lithographic tape, paper cut outs, matt box's and dodging and burning using all of the above or even a hand or two.

Of course a lot of these materials are
not available now as the digital age is recognised … Change is all we have but we still eat and do some other things in candlelight because it is beautiful …

Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following who have made this book possible:
Cambridge School of Art at ARU for assistance with the framing for the exhibition.
Peter Russell, Roger Maile, Richard Knight, Nicky Akehurst and Jill Levy for showing me it was possible.
Pam Kiernan, Gillie Cunningham, Fintan Nicholls and Patrick Dean for help with the text.
Martyn Rayner for help with this site.

Portrait of Hag by Richard Gibb.
Linda Wade for turning the book into reality.

Published 2008 by K. Ostra Productions.

© Ian James Hargreaves.
ISBN 978-0-9553118-0-2

Colour reproduction by Swaingrove,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Design by Linda Wade.

Printed in England by BAS Printers, Romsey, Hampshire.