The 2023-2024 & 2025
12x12" Inkjet Print
Books & PROJECTS
The Complete Inkjet Print Project, which has been in progress through all of 2023, 2024, and through August 2025, consists of the following collection of newly made inkjet prints of images made since approximately 2023:
The 12x12" Inkjet Print Books & PROJECTS
(presented here on this blog page)
The 16x20" Inkjet Prints
The 18x18" Inkjet Prints
The 21x21" Inkjet Prints
plus other inkjet printing projects and collections which I have present on other blog pages.
I have presented below two separate lists of projects: first, the 25 hyperlinked titles for the 12x12" thematic PROJECTS; and then secondly, the list of twelve hyperlinked 12x12" Books each of which are simply collections of images I have printed (12x12") because I consider the images my best works selected from all of my previously published blog projects.
It has been quite an education for me, making all the 12x12" prints (900 prints?) for the Books and then selecting images from the Books according to recurring themes for the PROJECTS. Through this process I have become more conscious of how so many of my favorite images address--simultaneously--multiple thematic issues.
The 12x12" inkjet print
PROJECTS
_________________Thematic collections of images___________________
All of the PROJECT images exist as 12x12" inkjet prints, drawn for the most part from the over 900 printed images collected within the 12x12" B00ks. Each PROJECT's introductory text discusses the thematic issues announced in the title.
The tonal mattes that surround the 12x12" images vary in size, but in every case I have carefully considered the tone-color and width of the surrounding matte and consider the matte an integral part of each image. Many of these images have later been printed into the larger print formats 16x20" 18x18" and 21x21".
You can see the complete collection of 2023-2024-2025 inkjet print photographs and thematic projects in this one blog link: The Complete 2023~2024 Inkjet Print Project Published December 23, 2024; This link includes the 21x21, 18x18, 16x20 & 12x12" collections of inkjet prints and several other related projects.
Please Note: most (but not all) of the 12x12" images in the BOOK and PROJECT collections
can be printed larger than 12x12." Nearly all of the 12x12" symmetrical images can be
printed up to 21" high x 21" wide . . . and in some instances much wider.
A final Note: I am concerned that you see my blog images in the highest quality reproductions possible. The blog images can never be as thrilling as the actual prints, but I encourage you to look over the following statement below which I have included in nearly all of my blog projects of the last two years:
A brief note about "How to Best View My Online Blog Images"
If you are viewing this project on a desktop computer or a laptop, I encourage you to read my blog explanation regarding How to Best View My Online Blog Images. In brief, click on an image once, then once again; this will (hopefully) enlarge the image and present it in a dark tonal environment at its maximum viewing quality in terms of image sharpness, luminance, tonal gradations, etc. Once you have entered this alternate viewing space you can then use your zoom-in & zoom-out keyboard or menu options to adjust the image size to your screen, and you can darken or lighten your computer's screen brightness to suit your equipment and viewing preferences.
~ TWENTY-FIVE THEME-BASED 12x12" Inkjet print PROJECTS ~
12x12" PROJECT : The Rising Sun, The Solar Eclipse, The Midnight Sun, & The Blue Pearl April 15, 2024
First Edition: Images made between April 2024 through July 2024
12x12" PROJECT : Things Suspended in Space - Part II, Thing-Centered Photographs, September 20, 2024
12x12" PROJECT : Symmetrical Thing-Centered Photographs : Part III of the "Thing-Centered Photographs" Project October 1, 2024
12x12" PROJECT : Infinity ~ Symmetrical Photographs : Infinite patters of Space & Light. October 10, 2024
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The 12x12" inkjet print
BOOKS
_____________Non-thematic collections of images_______________
The twelve 12x12" Inkjet Print BOOKS listed below are essentially collections of the 12x12" inkjet printed Book images that have been collected together based on a particular theme. I have chosen images that work well in the 12x12" format. (Some images work better in their original longer 4:3 format and thus were not included in the 12x12" Books, and some images needed to be printed larger in size (16x20" 18x18" and 21x21") to best visually articulate the photograph's presence and meaning.
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A little background information
I stopped making silver gelatin negatives and prints after 2003 when I bought my first Epson printer and a scanner for make digital files from my archive of black & white (and color) negatives. I have scanned both prints and negatives from earlier projects for the purposes of publishing the photographs in my blog projects which I began making in late 2010 and for the purposes of making the inkjet prints, (nearly) all of which you will be seeing in this project.
Though the BOOKS do not deal with particular themes, within each collection there may be clusters of images that relate to each other in various ways in terms of subject matter, formal issues, conceptual themes, etc. Also, many of the 12x12" inkjet print images may differ in format, from the earlier longer format versions published in many of my blog projects.
The idea to make 12x12" (square) inject prints from favorite images I had published in my blog projects (beginning in November 2010) was in part inspired by the early Studies I photography project of 1994-2000, in which I made miniature, snapshot size silver gelatin prints of images I found hidden in my archive of early mostly 35mm black and white negatives. I have written in detail about this in my Introduction for Book One.
I want to mentioned again that each of the "12x12 inkjet printed" images are surrounded by a tonal matte which I consider to be an integral part of the 12x12" image. I have written about the mattes in several BOOK introductions, including the Introduction to my first Book of 12x12" inkjet photographs, and the Introduction to my 16x20" inkjet print project: The Pandemic Inkjet Prints.
At the time of publishing the ELEVENTH BOOK there were over 800 inkjet prints (12x12") in total. BOOK TWELVE contains many additional images, and (as of August, 2025) remains a work-in- progress. Many of the 12x12" inkjet prints work perfectly for the images I had chosen, and some have needed to be printed larger. To see my collection of the larger newly printed inkjet prints (16x20" 18x18" and 21x21") please click on this link The Complete 2023~2024 Inkjet Print Project
Please Note: most (but not all) of the 12x12" images in the BOOK and PROJECT collections
can be printed larger than 12x12" up to and including 18x18". Nearly all of the 12x12"
symmetrical images can be printed to 21x21" and in longer formats as well.
Book ONE, May-June, 2023 A 12x12 Inkjet Print project
Book TWO, July 7, 2023 A 12x12 Inkjet Print project
Book THREE, July 25, 2023 A 12x12 Inkjet Print project
Book SEVEN, February 14, 2024 A 12x12 Inkjet Print project
Book EIGHT, March 22, 2024 A 12x12 Inkjet Print project
Book TEN September 5, 2024 A 12x12 Inkjet Print project
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This project page was published in mid-December, 2023
and revised multiple times in 2024
Latest updated: December 24, 2024
Related Blog Project Links
Published December 23, 2024; this is a revised and updated blog
project page dedicated to all of my 2023-2024 Inkjet Print Projects
The link above includes the 21x21, 18x18, 16x20 & 12x12" collections of inkjet prints and much more
Please visit the Welcome Page to my blog The Departing Landscape. It includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating from the most recent to those dating back to the 1960's. You will also find on the Welcome Page my resume, contact information . . . and much more.
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