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Zach Proffitt is a self-taught photographer and alternative process printmaker based in Colorado’s Front Range. He works primarily with cyanotype and photogravure and contributes to limited-edition fine-press books in collaboration with private presses.

His recent project, Wuduland (2023–2025), is a sustained photographic series made in an intimate Pacific Northwest woodland using long exposure and camera gesture. The work creates conditions where the forest, animated by natural light and shadow, gives rise to pareidolic suggestions of faces or other presences. Rather than documenting a landscape, Wuduland lingers in ambiguity, where imagination awakens as certainty fades. Select works from the series will appear in a forthcoming limited-edition fine-press book from No Reply Press.

Selected Fine Press Collaborations

Released

The Second Meditation, Marcus Aurelius
No Reply Press, 2025
Photogravure frontispiece from the Paris series

Forthcoming

In Praise of Shadows, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Consensus Press
Photography and photogravure frontispiece

Untitled edition
No Reply Press
Six photogravure plates from the Wuduland series

Untitled project
Canadian private press
Photogravure printing in collaboration with another artist

Untitled edition
No Reply Press
Photogravure frontispiece printed in collaboration with another artist

Projects in Development

Untitled edition
No Reply Press
Photography and a suite of photogravure plates in development

Public Collections

Harvard
University of Washington
University of Oregon
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)