Wet plate collodion artist and educator Will Dunniway writes: Greetings ~ I have been practicing in this craft since 1990 and just recently have begun to teach this skill in wet plate collodion workshops across the country. The workshops in Corona are for 2 days and the Montana workshop, 4 days. My experience credentials to [...]

These three Kodak publications are available as PDF downloads from archive.org. As you can see, they’re quite old, and the copyright has expired. Kodak Monograph 1: The silver bromide grain of photographic emulsions, Adrian Peter Herman Trivelli (1921) Kodak Monograph 2: The theory of development, Adolph H. Nietz (1922) The Photographic Negative, William Henry Burbank [...]

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 [...]

NEW Field Wet Plate Collodion Shoot coming this July 14–15, 2007 Large format camera Instructor: Will Dunniway of Corona, California, 40 miles east of Los Angeles, has been a professional graphic artist and photographer for over 40 years. He now practices the 19th century art of wet plate collodion photography using original cameras and lens [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Tom Persinger writes: If you’ve done all your holiday shopping and are thinking about something for yourself how about one of the many workshops being offered as part of the f295 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes? The Symposium takes place in Pittsburgh, PA USA 26-29 April 2007. The workshops that are currently [...]

Photographer Matt Larkin is working on a book of wet plate collodion ambrotypes documenting people doing ritual body suspension. While some may find the subject matter challenging, I find the photography incredibly compelling—it captures both the intensity and the peace that I’ve heard can come from the suspension experience. You can see more of Larkin’s [...]