William Henry Fox Talbot invented salted paper printing in 18 . This was the first process
to successfully stabilize captured photographic images. My most recent photographs merge
Talbot’s nineteenth century chemistry with twenty-first century technology—a digital negative
exposed onto a sheet of sensitized paper placed inside a time controlled light box. Water and
gold toning do the rest.


Artist Bio:

Rita Kent earned her undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University in
Ohio and her Masters of Education from Central Michigan University. She taught high
school art for 1 years before becoming a full-time artist. Rita’s primary field of interest is
photography. She enjoys all forms of photography, but is most interested in alternative photographic
processes. Her recent projects have focused on Van Dyke, cyanotype and salted
paper prints.