Adam French is a Leeds based photographic artist exclusively working with early and traditional silver and actinic light based processes. Using a range of antique camera equipment and historic techniques, his practice combines heritage skills with contemporary image-making, preserving and re-engaging with the material knowledge of early photographic pioneers.

French has a decade of experience working with analogue mediums and has been commissioned as historical process consultant for high-budget Netflix shows and BBC documentaries as well as technical demonstrations for museums and educational institutions.

His work emphasises natural light portraiture using handmade mediums, often intertwined with natural environments. Drawing influence from Renaissance art and the pictorialist photography movement, his images explore the human form through soft, atmospheric compositions that evoke a sense of timelessness. Through these historic processes, French investigates how photography shapes perception, memory, and aesthetic experience. 

If this sounds interesting to you, please don't hesitate to get in touch! I'm open to commissions and collaboration, as well as consultancy and tutoring of traditional photographic mediums.