Why Salt Printing?

I have chosen to look at the alternative process of salt print for my final outcomes, salt blocks could soon be used when building houses, however, the blocks would have to be coated with a waterproof material to prevent them from dissolving. Salt may not necessarily be used in the building process just yet, however, a salt print does give photographs an old fashioned sepia effect which I think would work really well for this subject matter.

To make sure that the salt printing process ties in with the subject of construction, I am going to be sourcing materials that are commonly found at building sites such as cement bags, plaster bags or ply wood, anything paper based or anything porous, and I will be using those as my base to print my photographs onto.

My next step will be to go through my final photoshoot and choose which photographs I think would be the most effective as a final outcome, I will then turn the photographs back into negatives using Adobe Photoshop and I will print them onto acetate so that I have, what is known as, a digital negative. From there I plan to coat my surfaces with a mixture of salt and water then I will leave that until it's dry, my next step would be to coat those same surfaces with a silver nitrate solution so that they become light sensitive which will enable me to print my photographs onto them. My final step would be to place my digital negatives onto the surfaces and weigh them down with a piece of glass (it has to be glass so that light can still get through it) so that they are flat and either place them in the sun or onto the UV machine so that they can develop.