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Christine So

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About Christine So

Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from San Francisco. She works in acrylics and cyanotype, the blue and white antique photographic process. Though best known for her cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog, she produces radically different effects with the same medium. Of note are her paintings on paper using the light-sensitive cyanotype solution within which she then prints a pattern. The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the li...Read More

Christine So

Established in 20181stDibs seller since 2024

Featured Pieces

Moonlight Chinese Elm ( 24 x 18 inch original botanical cyanotype)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These are branches from a Chinese elm tree. My botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow cameraless photographs made outdoors using natural light. There is no lens and there i...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Moonlight Chinese Elm ( 24 x 18 inch original botanical cyanotype)

Christine So
Moonlight Chinese Elm ( 24 x 18 inch original botanical cyanotype), 2026

Mighty Eucalyptus (cyanotype, 8.5 x 11 in., ed. 1/3, Landscape)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco shortly after sunrise. Eucalyptus trees grow ramrod straight side by side, towering overhead. The...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Mighty Eucalyptus (cyanotype, 8.5 x 11 in., ed. 1/3, Landscape)

Christine So
Mighty Eucalyptus (cyanotype, 8.5 x 11 in., ed. 1/3, Landscape), 2026

Light and Shadow, 8.5 x 11 in., Ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Native bay laurel trees reach across a shady path in the woods, soft morning light glowing in the distance where the slender eucalyptus let more light through. These are the woods in...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Light and Shadow, 8.5 x 11 in., Ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape

Christine So
Light and Shadow, 8.5 x 11 in., Ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape, 2026

Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 2 of 3)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 3 prints made in this largest size. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 2 of 3)

Christine So
Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 2 of 3), 2025

Bending Pine (Artist's Proof, original cyanotype, 30 x 18")
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
REASON FOR THE 25% DISCOUNT: There is a brown mark in the pale sky near the right edge (See first closeup photo). Undamaged hand-printed 30" cyanotype photographs by this artist are ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Bending Pine (Artist's Proof, original cyanotype, 30 x 18")

Christine So
Bending Pine (Artist's Proof, original cyanotype, 30 x 18"), 2026

Bending Pine (Artist's Proof I, cyanotype, 35 x 21")
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
REASON FOR THE 25% DISCOUNT off the normal price for this size photograph: The sky in the upper right edge is darker than it should be. It is the result of brushing on the light-sen...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Bending Pine (Artist's Proof I, cyanotype, 35 x 21")

Christine So
Bending Pine (Artist's Proof I, cyanotype, 35 x 21"), 2026

The Forest Beckons, edition 1 of 6 (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 16 inches)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Morning light filters silently through dense coastal fog and layers of tree branches. This path through a tangle of redwoods and bay laurel trees is in the woods across the bay from ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

The Forest Beckons, edition 1 of 6 (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 16 inches)

Christine So
The Forest Beckons, edition 1 of 6 (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 16 inches), 2026

Silver Jasmine (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Jasmine (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype)

Christine So
Silver Jasmine (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype), 2026

Sea Cliffs, Bodega Bay: Hand-Printed Cyanotype, ed. 1 of 5, 24 x 18 inches
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These cliffs are north of Bodega Bay on the northern California coast, just above Goat Rock Beach. It was a summer morning. The morning fog had just cleared. The color of the sea and...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Sea Cliffs, Bodega Bay: Hand-Printed Cyanotype, ed. 1 of 5, 24 x 18 inches

Christine So
Sea Cliffs, Bodega Bay: Hand-Printed Cyanotype, ed. 1 of 5, 24 x 18 inches, 2026

Sunrise Clearing Hand-Printed Cyanotype, ed. 2 of 5, 24x18 inches
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These graceful leaning Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. They become top-heavy as they grow and th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Sunrise Clearing Hand-Printed Cyanotype, ed. 2 of 5, 24x18 inches

Christine So
Sunrise Clearing Hand-Printed Cyanotype, ed. 2 of 5, 24x18 inches, 2023

White Morning Oak (18 x 24 inch cyanotype, ed. 1 of 5)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
A single oak tree in a meadow in dense morning fog. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph printed by hand using the ant...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

White Morning Oak (18 x 24 inch cyanotype, ed. 1 of 5)

Christine So
White Morning Oak (18 x 24 inch cyanotype, ed. 1 of 5), 2026

Lean into the Turn (11 x 7 inch cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Towering Monterey pines lean over a steep path in the woods at dawn in a dramatic composition. All lines lean the same direction. Then the rises at a sharp angle upward, leading the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Lean into the Turn (11 x 7 inch cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3)

Christine So
Lean into the Turn (11 x 7 inch cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3), 2026

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