Professional Fine Art Large Format Photography Printed on Archival Paper

Most of the available prints by  Garth Meyer was captured on 11 X 14 inch negatives with a handcrafted 20 X 18 inch solid Teak camera. Once captured, the negatives are processed, using traditional methods of developing Film. Each print is guaranteed for life and is a limited, signed edition out of 50 regardless of the printing medium.  The collection covers vast regions, history and landscapes of Africa, Europe, Asia and America. We encourage and welcome any questions you might have about the work. If you would like to be notified of new new bodies of work, please register here.

Printing Mediums:

Black-and-white hand custom printing:

Fibre-based black and-white hand prints are arguably the finest reproductions available. These prints are hand-processed, fixed in two baths,and then washed and toned to archival standards. Printing includes cropping, dodging and burning. A variety of fine fibre-based and resin coated papers in glossy, semi-matt, matt and pearl finishes are available. Our Print Masters, Silvertone, is also able to tone chemically, creating various colours and tones with varied and interesting results.

Lith printing:
The intrinsic beauty and creative potential of this process is endless, and Silvertone uses a variety of papers and chemicals to produce these provocative prints. To achieve a lith print, a suitable black and-white photographic paper is overexposed and developed in highly diluted developer; by using this particular mode of action known as ‘infectious development’, a print with black shadows, coloured mid tones and highlights is typically the result.

Alternative printing – Salt/Cyanotype/Van Dyke-Brown Printing:
These historic printing processes simulate the old photographic process, where required chemical emulsions are specially mixed and prepared at Silvertone and carefully hand brushed onto high-quality 100%-cotton paper using specially imported wooden Hake brushes or glass rods. Silvertone then produces digital negatives from the original negative, transparency or computer-generated image. These negatives are contact printed onto the coated paper by exposing them to ultraviolet light. The exposed paper is then either washed, processed, fixed or toned where necessary.

Print Experts
Dennis Da Silva and Andreas Kahlau of Silvertone International.

Digital Printing:
Over the past 25 years, Andreas Kahlau’s interest in not only reproducing images but his own photography has enhanced his ability to control colour and detail, and to set new standards in the digital fine art printing market. He has attended four practical workshops – one in Germany with Ilford, two with the well-known art printer Jon Cone Editions in America, and a profiling workshop at Ergosoft – also in America. Recently, Kahlau traveled to Canada, where he studied under legendary Photoshop guru Dan Margulis; Cleveland in the US, where he visited with colour specialists X-Rite, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he did an advanced course in Predictable Colour Printing and Proofing, as well as a stop in Berlin for further colour management training at the specialist workshop of Christian Piskulla. Along the way, Kahlau also acquired an Apple Pro Certification in Colour Management, becoming one of only a handful of Apple Certified Colour Management Pros in the world, and the only one in Africa.