Using Cyanotype UV Boxes

Video Transcript

"So this is a ultraviolet light unit that I use to make alternative process prints with. From cyanotypes to platinum palladiums, van dyke browns. Anything that I need a UV light source, other than well including the sun, to make prints with. This is what I have, I bought this box. But it is essentially, you can make it with the right electric knowledge. Basically these are sunlamps. What they're doing is they're putting out a controlled amount of ultraviolet light. Between here I'm going to have my box down on the floor. I'm able to have this open where I can slide my contact print frame or whatever I'm printing from with. Pretty nice design, has a fan built into it to keep the bulbs cooled down. Because these bulbs will get incredibly hot. Now I bought this box pre-made online. It was not inexpensive, it was about eight hundred dollars. But I make money from the work I do with it, so it paid for itself. But in reality, I've seen two other photographer colleagues make one of these boxes, and understand basic wiring for about a hundred dollars, maybe two hundred dollars. But it's a great thing to have when it's raining."