Wednesday 31 August 2011

WPC Workshop :)

Everything happened in Glencree with diligent assistance of my cats :)

Maciej has a background in photography, but his life path moved far away from this profession. However since we met and I took a portrait of him, he kept asking me for showing him the whole process. I think collodion has truly awakened his forgotten passion.

While I was introducing Maciej to wet plate collodion process, Lubor accompanied us with his camera and did this short video, which  I decided to share:




Monday 22 August 2011

Peoples Photography 2011

Peoples Photography is a great, open air, photography event taking place every year in August, in the centre of Dublin. It gathers together photographers of all age and experience.  Photographs are exhibited on the railing of St. Stephen's Park. It is a great opportunity to exchange the knowledge and get feedback from friends photographers and the public. I really enjoyed it last year and I'm taking part this year,this time with cyanotypes and collodions, See you around.

Peoples Photography
27th & 28th August
9 a.m - 6 p.m
St. Stephen's Green


my space last year:

Wednesday 3 August 2011

Hiawatha's Photographing @ Americana & RootsWeekend

(click the image to enlarge)

The above poster (des. Kasia Kesicka) promoted a collodion portraiture event, which took place during Americana & Roots Weekend in Greystones, (Ireland) last weekend, and was organised by my collodionist friend Kasia Kesicka and myself.
It quotes a poem of Lewis Caroll, British writer and poet, best known as author of 'Alice in Wonderland', who was also a passionate photographer - 'collodionist'. He wrote the above poem about the wet plate collodion process and we decided to honour the event with the same title. (whole poem HERE)

It was a vibrant, very interesting weekend and I must say - everything went very well. We met with a big interest from the public and had quite a few happy clients, who decided to have their own ambrotypes or ferrotypes.
Although we both already worked on location earlier, it was a first time when we took part in re-enactment event, open for the public. We had plenty of concerns (i.e. if and how to varnish plates on the spot), but I think we created a well organised team and managed everything well. (plates taken on Saturday were varnished at home and were ready for collection the following day, and on Sunday plates were varnished on the spot, with traditional varnish)
We also learned a lot from each other as we use different collodion receipts, different equipments and Kasia works mostly with metal plates, myself - with glass.
All in all it was a great experience!









Gallery of ambrotype portraits taken: