Sara Prindiville is a 2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate
from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH.

Sara has won several awards for her work,
including one from the Sharon Arts Center,Peterborough, NH,
in their 2005 Black and White Juried Exhibition.

Sara lives in Nashua, NH, USA and works out of Plastic Camera Studio
a 1,100sqft photography studio located in an old mill building alongside the Nashua river.

She works mainly with a 4x5 wooden pinhole camera
and the traditional 19th Century photographic process Albumen printing.

The Albumen print, invented in 1850 by Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard,
was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a print on a paper base from a negative.
It used the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper
and became the dominant form of photographic positives from 1855 to the turn of the century,
with a peak in the 1860-90 period.

Albumen prints are placed in direct contact with the negative.
Since the image emerges as a direct result of exposure to light and without the aid of a developing solution,
the albumen print is a 'Printed' rather than 'Developed' photograph.

A bath of Sodium thiosulfate then fixes the print's exposure and prevents further darkening.
Finally, gold toning improves the photograph's tone and helps protect it from fading.