Love alternative processes?
We're all about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn how to print photographs with these techniques, or share your own experiences with others. Welcome.
Workshops
Will Dunniway’s last Collodion Workshop this year, October 9-10, 2010
Will Dunniway's last Collodion Workshop this year.
Students will learn the making of ambrotypes (glass direct positives) and tintypes.
Exhibitions
Strange Folk Festival, IL, Sept 25 & 26 2010
Strange Folk Festival features alternative process photography. Cyanotypes, Polaroid Transfers, infrareds and emulsion lifts will all be for sale at Strange Folk Festival.
Photographers & people
Interview with Joy Goldkind
Joy Goldkind took up photography at the age of 50. Here she talks about her bromoil work of dancers, geishas, and drag queens and how she found the bromoil process.
Call for entries
If you only enter one show this year…
The 31st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition are now taking calls for entries. I think this exhibition deserves an extra highlight, since it's exclusively alternative photographic processes.
Books
Prices lowered on Mike Ware’s books!
Two of Mike Ware's books have lowered their prices due to the exchange rate.
Exhibitions
Brighton Photo Biennial and Fringe, 2 Oct – 14 Nov 2010
As part of the Brighton Photo Biennial and Fringe, Siderotype.com will be presenting talks and exhibitions.
Exhibitions
Photomonth East London Photography Festival, 1 October-30 November 2010
As part of the Photomonth East London Photography Festival, Siderotype.com will be presenting exhibitions.
Workshops
8 week alt-processes at Penland School with Dan Estabrook, 26 Sept-19 Nov 2010
This class will use the techniques and craft of photography to drive new creative concepts. Students will explore an enormous variety of historical and contemporary techniques—from cyanotpyes, salt prints, and gum bichromates to handmade cameras, darkroom experiments, and more—in order to push themselves and their work further than ever before.
Lithuanian photographers
Arunas Kulikauskas
A Lithuanian artitist, living in New York, USA works mainly with pinholes and polaroid emulsion lifts.
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North American photographers – West & West Coast
Dan Jones
A graphic designer from Pasadena, California, USA whose main focus is the Wet plate collodion process, but sometimes works in other processes too.
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Meetings & talks
Northwest Symposium for Alternative Process Photography, 2-3 Oct 2010
The first Northwest Symposium for Alternative Process Photography will be held on October 2-3, 2010 in Bellevue, Washington, just minutes from downtown Seattle. The symposium is being sponsored by the regional chapter of CPHT, Center for Photographic History and Technology.
Call for entries
Alternatives: Where Process is Paramount, at Mpls Photo Center, entries by 30 sept, exhibition 5 nov 2010
If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks in the Mpls Photo Center's new Main Floor Gallery: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery.
Exhibitions
Infraredscapes at Urban Eats, 27 Aug 2010
Opening reception 4:30 to 6:30. Join Jane Linders as she discusses her work and explains the ins and outs of black and white infrared photography.
Gum bichromates
Ferric gum process – a radically different variation on gum
The gum ferric process is like gum bichromate in some respects but it is also radically different. Sensitiser is brushed onto the paper, the paper is dried and exposed under a suitable image, and only at this point would pigmented gum be brushed onto the exposed paper.
Call for entries
Alternatives: Where Process is Paramount, Mpls Photo Center, Juror: Keith Taylor, Sept 30th 2010
In this age of digital photography, more and more photographers are seeking an alternative. This return to labor and craftsmanship resists the quick-fix of inkjet technology and values something much more satisfying and elusive. The best examples are, first and foremost, great photographs. Yet, these are photographs with a richer tale to tell - one that shows the mark of the maker, and the effects of light on a hand-coated surface. These are not just images, they are objects.
Workshops
Rochester, NY – Photographs on Glass Workshop, 25 sept 2010
Learn the basics of wet plate collodion in Rochester, NY.
Workshops
Rochester, NY Cyanotype Workshop, 16 oct 2010
Rochester, NY Cyanotype Workshop. The art of the cyanotype.
Gum bichromate photographers
Sandra C. Davis
American photographer
North American photographers – East & East Coast
From: Burlington, NJ near Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Shows: Gum bichromates.
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Bromoil photographers
Hans van Erp 1955 – 2007
European photographer
From: Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Shows: Bromoils, Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Gum over cyanotype.
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Open blog
Food/Art in Los Angeles
I just got back from a trip to Los Angeles. We spent some time seeing friends and shopping (my 18 year old daughter was with us), taking pictures (I shot 6 rolls each with my Zero 2000 pinhole camera and my Diana+), but also managed to see some art.
