Ludwig Hagelstein is a portrait and documentary photographer living in Bamberg, Germany and an author for various photographic publications. He is an avid supporter of the resurgence of traditional chemical photography.

Sharing the fundamental conviction that chemical photography is far from being antiquated or obsolete, he strives to accumulate and share knowledge by writing about chemical photography and its intricacies, as well as about the struggle for creativity in photography and all that goes along with it. He is highly interested in innovating photographic processes and the conservation and distribution of photographic knowledge. All is nothing if nobody knows anything. Currently, Ludwig Hagelstein writes about chemical photography for various online and print publications, among others Emulsive, Petapixel, Medium Format Magazine and Photoklassik International and SilvergrainClassics.

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