Katie Cooke has posted two amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog. Roundup one: Sunprints, shadowprints and photograms Roundup two: Luminograms, bodygrams, and photograms Related resources: photogram.org, Flickr groups Photograms and Photogram

Philadephia’s Project Basho have announced their Fall 2007 class and workshop schedule: Fall Classes and New Workshops We would like to let you know that the fall schedule for photography classes and workshops at Project Basho has been finalized and is posted on our website. We have exciting workshops coming this fall. As usual, we [...]

The Santa Fe Downtown Public Library is proud to announce the opening of the photography show: "Before It’s Gone" Photographs of the Albuquerque Rail Yard Silver gelatin, platinum palladium and gum bichromate photographs of the Albuquerque Rail Yard by David Bram, Joshua Spees and Todd Stewart. The show runs through July 31, 2007, at the [...]

Bostick & Sullivan, supplier of traditional photography supplies, have opened a new carbon printing discussion forum. Check it out! Related: Spitbite Carbon Printing Mailing List

Students will learn the making of ambrotypes (glass direct positives) and tintypes. (Ferrotypes, tin plate direct positives) Students are guided through the process step-by-step from the mixing, pouring, exposing and development of plates poured with wet collodion. The newest edition now is 4 color of the manual, Making the Wet Collodion Plate in 16 Steps [...]

"Light in the Forest" is a show of solar plate prints and cyanotypes by [insanely talented] pinhole/zone plate/alternative process photographer Henrieke I. Strecker. It runs 14 May – 9 June, 2007, at Gallery Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main, DE. You can see some of Strecker’s work at www.photogravure.de, pinhole-photography.de, www.zoneplate.de, and two photoblogs on Flickr.

I recently stopped by wet plate collodion photographer Matthew Larkin’s studio and got a look at an advance copy of his just-published book, Suspended in Time, which is the end result of a two year collaboration between Larkin and body suspension group Rites of Passage. I’m a bit of a hard sell when it comes [...]

Preeminent photographer Diana Bloomfield will discuss her craft at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 31 [2007] at UNC Asheville’s Rhoades-Robinson Hall, room 125 [Asheville, NC, US]. A question-and-answer session will follow the talk, which is free and open to the public. Bloomfield specializes in pinhole and 19th century printing techniques, including platinum and palladium, cyanotype [...]

With Quinn Jacobson, author of The Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Experience and moderator of the collodion.com Wet Plate Collodion Forum.

Here’s a very interesting-looking workshop with Kerik Kouklis (I have it on good authority that his workshops are excellent): Wet plate collodion, one of the earliest photographic processes, has been experiencing a resurgence of interest in recent years. This resurgence is primarily because of the beauty and uniqueness of the images created. In this workshop, [...]