John Lockhart

I transform photographic images into handmade prints. In my work, I seek to combine the authenticity and immediacy of documentary and street photography with a painstaking approach to each print as a handcrafted fine art artifact. Every gallery image on this site a reproduction of a physical print made individually from handcrafted materials.

I taught myself to make platinum and gold toned kallitypes and eventually explored copper and polymer gravure. However, carbon is my most loved process and the focus of my work. An historic and elite process alongside platinum and gravure, carbon is now practiced by a few enthusiasts and prized for its unique aesthetic and unmatched archival quality.

I am a native of Houston and I currently live and work in Austin.