Favorite photo portraits of letterpress friends

We are trying to collect together our favorite portraits we’ve taken of people who print via letterpress. We’ll keep adding to this over time.

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 Alan Kitching giving talk at London College of Communication - June 23, 2004

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Alan Kitching in the dining room at the Royal College of Art

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Mike Kaylor with Walt Whitman at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC - February 17, 2007

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Above might be more of a portrait of the early iron handpress, but it is Mike Kaylor with Justin Howes at his home in Dulwich, England with Justin’s Stanhope press - June 21, 2004

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Tray Nichols being TK4251. A funny story : type designer Erik Spiekermann once claimed one of our photos of Tray was actually him.

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Grant Hart, drummer for Hüsker Dü, at a Three Rooms Press gathering after a poetry reading related to the John Kennedy conspiracy theories.

Some others to add : Henry Morris, Bird & Bull Press, talking with Lindsay Schmittle, Gingerly Press, just after she bought his C & P 10 x 15. Both seem happy.

 

 Henry MorrisBird & Bull Press, talking details with Tray NicholsLead Graffiti, about his Miehle V50 that we just bought for Lead Graffiti.