Kanta.Studio is a special photo studio practising traditional silverprint photography, offering unique black & white portrait photographs, hand-printed instantly. The new photo studio and darkroom spaces are both now opened at GMBB, Jalan Robertson, Kuala Lumpur.

Background– Kanta first started as an art research project by Jeffrey Lim in 2012, where he built unique box cameras for portraiture. Travelling through rural Malaysia, Borneo included, Taiwan and Japan in a social exchange with the indigenous communities. The uniqueness of his alternative process enables the exposures to be printed instantly on Silver Gelatin paper. He fundraised for the project by participating at art markets producing instant hand-prints which eventually laid the foundation for what would later become this permanent photo studio space.

Instant Portrait Series– sizes available

    Small– 4 x 5    /    Medium– 5 x 7    /    Large– 8 x 10 inches

Other formats available via special request and with additional darkroom processing.

The available package– Instant Portrait Series is available in three sizes, Small, Medium & Large-sized print. It includes four exposures and prints, each black & white photographs printed on silver gelatin paper using traditional hand-printing methods.

Silver Halide or Silver Gelatin print is the common type of black and white photograph of the 20th century.  It is hand processed in a controlled darkroom environment and requires optical and chemical development to process out the image in print. Silver prints have archival properties and are now considered a historical process. To produced hand printed silverprints today is such a rarity in practise and a unique traditional process.