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Interview with Alternative/Historic Process photographer Jeannette Palsa

8 March 2016 0

Self-taught photographer and photo-based artist, Jeannette Palsa opened J. Palsa Photography in 1995. She attended Kent State University studying graphic design. Since 2004 she has worked in the historic photographic processes of gum dichromate, platinum palladium printing and wet-plate collodion.…

Interview with Tintype photographer Christine Eadie

29 November 2015 0

1. How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was around 11 I pulled apart my mother’s Kodak instamatic to see how the shutter worked. I ended up breaking the camera in the process. A friend then…

Interview with Ferrotype/Portrait photographer Hans de Kort

3 August 2015 0

Hans de Kort was born in 1963 in the Netherlands. At the age of 4 he had his first encounter with photography, witnessing the development of pictures in the dark room: the start of a lifetime fascination for ‘writing with…

Interview with Hand-Made/Portrait photographer Jessica Somers

21 June 2015 0

Jessica Somers is a photographer specializing in historic and hand-made photographic techniques and self-portraiture. Her photographs explore the struggle and balance between the choices one makes and the uncontrollable circumstances that intervene with these choices. Jessica’s work has been exhibited…

Interview with Large Format / Collodion photographer Jim Sincock

8 June 2015 0

Wisconsin fine art photographer Jim Sincock, focuses on large format black and white landscape and fine art still life photography. In his processes he uses traditional film, silver gelatin dry plate (glass negatives) wet plate collodion (aka tintype), digital, and…

Interview with Wet Plate Collodion photographer Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer

1 June 2015 0

My name is Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer. I grew up between former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria (Austria too). Now I live and work in Lexington, Kentucky. In making art, I seek to deepen the mystery — to open the door to the unknown,…

Interview with Alternative Process photographer Miho Kajioka

6 May 2015 0

I was born in 1973 in Okayama, Japan, and at 18 moved to California, where I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. I began there as a painting major, but little by little turned to photography. I finished by…

Interview with Wet-Plate Collodion / Landscape photographer Ben Nixon

1 May 2015 0

Ben Nixon creates landscapes of extraordinary beauty through the unwieldy nineteenth-century wet-plate collodion process, a hands-on photographic technique that offers the artist tight control of materials and yet invites serendipitous visual irregularities influenced by conditions in the field. Nixon avoids…

Interview with Fine Art photographer Michael Massaia

17 April 2015 0

Michael Massaia (born in New Jersey, 1978) is a fine art Photographer and Printmaker who has spent the past nine years documenting areas and objects that never extend to far from his front door. Isolation, disconnection, and an attempt to…

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