For the Love of Paper

I’ve been in love with paper for a while now. It started back in 1992 when I was introduced to fiber based gelatin silver paper. Specifically, my first love was Zone VI Brilliant. It was a graded paper, with the contrast baked into the emulsion—and making the commitment to a G3 paper was a decision filled with trepidation-“what if it was too much contrast” $60 later, I had a box of 11x14 sized paper, but more importantly the paper represented possibility of new ways to express my ideas through photography.