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Beautiful Decay Feature

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:09:20 +0000

Kathryn Mayo and Doug Winter, a husband and wife photography team based in Sacramento, collaborate with their models to create vintage portraits, seemingly of the past, using the traditional wet plate collodion process. This type of photography was born in the 1850s, but soon faded from the foreground, due to the proliferation of more practical, less time consuming processes involving dry gelatin emulsion. However, in today’s fast-paced iPhone app culture, where formatting is clean, easy, and instantaneous, ironically, the slow painstaking process is exactly what this artistic pair prefer about collodion. Mayo elaborates, “Each image takes about 15-20 minutes to complete from focusing the camera, coating and sensitizing the plate, exposing, and processing. So, models need to have patience as not each image comes out perfect, and it takes a few to get one we like–sometimes, there are times when the chemistry isn’t working up to par and we don’t get anything at all.” Regardless of outcome, their passion is not just about product, but discovery and investigation. Mayo continues, “I love the idea of using a process steeped in history and with the ghosts of photographers who have come before me. It is a process that is wholly addicting.”

RECLAMARE Show 04 / 13 – 05 / 28 2013

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:09:50 +0000

Permanent art By Shoka shokas@newsreview.com This article was published on 04.11.13. Just a stone’s throw south of Masullo’s wood-fired pizza oven is the home to Corey Bernhardt’s new Reclamare Gallery & Custom Tattoo. Bernhardt’s own work, both on skin and on canvas, is simultaneously gory, elegant, fantastical and visceral. And perhaps it’s premature to say, but based on the lineup for Reclamare’s first show ever—Bernhardt, Chris Bales, Jacquelyn Bond, Jayme Goodwin, Jared Konopitski, Andrew Luck, Kathryn Mayo, Douglas Winter, Joel Smith, Andy Steele, Jason Taylor, Jared Tharp, Jessica Ann White—this space may be Sacramento’s next great spot for medium- to low-brow masterpieces

New Plate from the Number 5 Darkroom

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:56:18 +0000

Full Plate / test Plate from the New Darkroom

11″x14″ Ambrotype Test

admin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:10:26 +0000

We have finally overcome and fixed the focus problems with the 11×14 wooden camera we purchased almost two years ago. Pretty excited to finally be able to use this camera.

Wet Plate Collodion Negitive Workshop with Quinn Jacobson

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:08:59 +0000

We attended the Studio Q workshop this weekend and made some really exciting progress in our goal to become true collodionists/photographers. Quinn Jacobson is such an inspirational teacher and a really great person who is very positive and full of encouragement. This workshop and the three days spent with Quinn at Studio Q was a life changing event.

Plate #59 | Hypnosis series

admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:20:51 +0000

Plate #56 | Hide Under the Shadow of your Wings

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 06:08:58 +0000

Plate #56 is our first 11×14 inch plate.

World Wet Plate Day 2011

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:08:28 +0000

Birds as Idea

admin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:41:50 +0000