Catharina Marlowe’s career includes working as a photo technician and photographer at the University of California in Santa Cruz, operating her own studio, teaching workshops, and working as a freelance photographer.
I have been photographing since I was a teenager, and even though I studied psychology and earned an M.A. degree in counseling psychology, my interest stayed with photography, taking photo classes and workshops whenever possible. When I was offered a position at the photo lab at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I decided to end my counseling career and pursue photography professionally.
In my later years I have been committed to fine-art photography with an emphasis on the classic processes, working with large view cameras producing large film negatives to make platinum, Van Dyke, and cyanotype prints. I am also interested in photogravure, a historical process in which a photographic print is made with an intaglio printing plate and an etching press. Large negatives can now be made on the computer and new materials and technologies have made it possible to make plates without having to resort to toxic chemicals and laborious methods characteristic of the historic process.
In the fall of 2014, I joined the Printmakers At The Tannery ( https://pattpress.org/ ) in order to pursue my interest in photogravure printing with photopolymer intaglio plates and learn other printing techniques in the company of likeminded artists and friends.