>>2593103If you're willing to use film, here's what Salgado used to do:
Shot Tri-X Pan (320) at 200.
Develop in Atomal (A49) 1+1.
I found that if you use regular Tri-X (400TX), you can get very close results using D76 stock, also exposing a bit over.
For the printing part, you should try split-grading.
Those are only some notions of what use. Only by practicing and understanding the materials and conditions you have at hand, you'll get the results you want. This is the reason why there's so few information on "advanced b/w processing". Nonetheless, I recommend you to read the book Post-Exposure, by Ctein. (
http://ctein.com/booksmpl.htm)
Of course, this is just the darkroom part of photographing, and you'll need to find the correct lighting. Here, Brazil southeast, I found that I can get lighting close to the lighting of Salgado when the ambient is either high-humidity/low-dust or low-humidity/high-dust; in the hours right before sunset, that is, when the light is "low angle". Also, it'll play a big part the texture of your subjects. It is much easier to achieve this look if they're sweaty, or dusty, or oily, or a bit wet, as the particles may act as "specular" particles, increasing you contrast in a very specific way.
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