Photography and image-based art — black and white editions on Japanese and fine art papers, glass-laminated objects, original paintings, drawings, and video installations, produced in-house at our Zurich studio or by the artists themselves.

The Collection spans unique works and strictly numbered editions, drawn from two distinct sources : a private archive of historical photographic glass plates, and contemporary works produced or presented in collaboration with living artists.

The Karo Museum edition takes two subjects from blackprint’s historical archive to a scale their original plates could never have anticipated.

‘Vesuvius’ originates from a glass plate negative of 8.5 × 8.5 cm dating from around 1880. ‘Polycystina’ from a microscope slide of 2.6 × 7.5 cm dating from around 1890 — radiolarian skeletons, photographed through a lens at a scale invisible to the naked eye. Both are printed ten times larger than their source on Awagami Bamboo Washi and laminated between two panes of 2mm anti-reflective mineral glass. Minimal digital intervention only: no retouching beyond what is necessary to stabilise the image. The marks of time on the original plates remain.