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I was born and educated in Germany. My interest in photography started when I was about seven years old and saw a B&W image emerging in the developer of my father's primitive darkroom. My first camera was a simple box camera handed down from my grandmother, followed by a post-war 6x6 rangefinder from my father. As a young adult, my family and I immigrated to the US, where I worked for the Ford Motor Company and received a Masters Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Lawrence Technological University in Michigan. While living in the US, my interest in photography grew slowly into a passion, when I met accomplished photographers like Howard Bond and Phil Davies, who taught me the basics of fine printing and the Zone System. Further photographic education followed, including a workshop with John Sexton in California, which ended with an unforgettable visit to Ansel Adams' darkroom. My choice of equipment has become more sophisticated since the box camera, but B&W fine-art photography is still my medium of choice, and I enjoy performing all darkroom tasks myself, including the preparation and utilization of digital negatives for contact printing. To me, an attractive presentation of the image is just as important as the photography itself. Consequently, I prepare all mounting, matting and framing work to archival gallery standards. Since 1999, I'm an Associate of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (RPS) and a Graduate Image Scientist of the RPS since 2007. My work has been exhibited internationally from private galleries to the London Salon of Photography. I have been involved with adult education for 20 years, have written for Camera & Darkroom, Black & White Photography, View Camera magazine and authored the book 'Way Beyond Monochrome' together with my friend and colleague Chris Woodhouse. Now back in Germany, more publications are being prepared and published, including a recently released and detailed section on archival processing in the new 4th edition of 'The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography' and an article on combining digital and analog photography to 'hybrid printing' in Fine Art Printer. More is on the way. |
Ralph W. Lambrecht Graduate Imaging Scientist Am Kreispark 26a +49 (0)2171 - 397 730 tel |
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