At the portfolio walk we get to see the work of our fellow Camp Lucida attendees, or rather half of them, the ones whose last names begin in the half of the alphabet not your own. My highly unscientific poll of the print types yielded this. Of the 80 or so portfolios I saw (or more accurately, glanced at), about a third to a half were black and white. I sussed out one silver print portfolio in that group, one ambriotype, and a half dozen platinum/palladium portfolios. The rest were digital prints.
Among the color, 90% or better were inkjet prints, way up from two years ago. The small pool of C-print portfolios were more likely to have been printed with a digital C-print machine (LightJet or Lambda) than in a color darkroom.
Regardless of mono- or multi-chrome, most people appear to be inkjet printing on matte papers.
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