Armed with her 8 x 10 Deardorff camera and collection of antique lenses, Jeannette Palsa has been producing fine art black and white portraits for the past 12 years. She has achieved impressive results using techniques first developed by the old masters of photography in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Her delicate pictorial style creates a mood and ambiance that has earned her a reputation for beautiful prints that seem to transcend time. Ms. Palsa is also gaining a reputation for her work in antique processes including platinum/palladium, albumen and most recently ambrotypes using the wet-collodion process.

Typically referred to as "Alternative" or "Non-Silver" processes, these are the photographic print making processes used from 1839 to 1910. During this period, large cameras were required to make negatives the same size as the final image. It's the era between the first Daguerreotypes of 1839 and the Silver Gelatin processes dominant since the late 19th Century.

A portfolio of Ms. Palsa's work is featured in the first volume of Double Exposure. Double Exposure is a semi-annually published, limited-edition book featuring portfolios by established and emerging photographers working in alternative printing methods coupled with essays written by today's foremost authorities in photographic arts, history, collecting and critique. Visit them at Double Exposure Online.