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Maison Picturale — alternative photographic processes workshop

The Maison Picturale experience

Where image
meets matter

Workshop-gallery dedicated to alternative processes.

Maison Picturale

Come in whichever way you like

Four doors into the same workshop: the place, the prints, the heritage behind them, and the teaching.

Self-Portrait — Alphonse Poitevin

Bibliothèque Picturale

13 masters · 280 works · 1842 → 1929

Contemporary prints after the pictorialist masters of the public domain. Hand-reinterpreted by Maison Picturale's artisans using Vision Picturale's reformulated non-toxic chemistry.

Work of the day

Alphonse Poitevin · Self-Portrait

1853 · Salted paper print

Salted-paper self-portrait (1853) — the inventor of gum bichromate photographing himself.

The Maison Picturale workshop

A place devoted to materiality, where time stands still to bring your images to life.

The Studio & Team →

Have an edition project or wish to learn?

Picturale Ecosystem

From workshop to frame.

Order your supplies, calibrate your process, and entrust us with your prints — everything is connected.