Platinum printing is a distinctive philosophy of image-making — to sink light into paper, and to seal time in metal.
Since co-founding WhiteCrow78 Studio in 2019, Pi-Lin Liu has devoted herself to the research and practice of platinum-palladium printing. Through this process, she has come to see the medium not merely as a historical technique, but as a living material language capable of carrying contemporary photographic thought.
Digital negatives and precision image-making allow this classical metal process to move beyond reproduction and enter into dialogue with the present. Between handcraft and technology, material and perception, a new balance gradually emerges.
For Liu, platinum printing is not simply a method of making photographs. It is a way of extending the work itself — allowing light, paper, metal, and time to converge within a single surface. In this sense, each print becomes a quiet vessel through which questions of existence, duration, and becoming may continue to unfold.
