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Tintype, 2026
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Essence by Vanity Tintype.
Tintype, 2026
Charles Guerin (dry collodion, 2017)
from here
eucanthos
Arnold Genthe, Anna Duncan and dancers, 1911-42
Goldfinch, hahnemuhle watercolor
Tim Flach, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, 2021
Sparrow Historical illustration from 1896
Caryatids of Erechtheïon, Akropolis [marble pleats]
Notes Michael Heizer Untitled megalith drawing [overlay]
iidamiidam Untitled No.334 [overlay]
Collodion glass negative frame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(play)
Mudra, série Subcultural, photo sur collodion humide, par Christian Houge
FR | EN
La série Subcultural (2023–2025) réunit des portraits de personnes issues de scènes underground et alternatives. Comment abordez-vous le collodion humide lorsque vous photographiez des sujets humains ? Apprendre le collodion, c’est apprendre à faire confiance au procédé sans le contrôler. Quand on travaille avec des gens, c’est très lent mais aussi très intense, parce que la personne doit rester immobile pendant parfois 10, 20, 25 secondes. Avec cette imprévisibilité des produits chimiques et ce temps de pose très long, les masques que nous portons au quotidien tombent. Certaines personnes ont presque les larmes aux yeux quand elles voient les plaques les représentant, car il y a quelque chose de très intense et personnel. J’ai senti que le collodion était une façon parfaite de se connecter aux sous-cultures, pour ce caractère intime. Le collodion ne consiste pas simplement à prendre leur photo, c’est un processus totalement différent dans lequel je me sens plus inclus dans ce qu’ils sont.
(entrevue dans L'Oeil de la photographie, mars 2026)
EN
The Subcultural series (2023–2025) brings together portraits of people from underground and alternative scenes. How do you approach wet collodion when photographing human subjects? Learning collodion is about learning to trust the process without trying to control it. When working with people, it is very slow but also very intense, because the subject has to remain still for sometimes 10, 20, or 25 seconds. With the unpredictability of the chemicals and such long exposure times, the masks we wear in everyday life fall away. Some people are almost in tears when they see the plates depicting them, because there is something deeply intense and personal about them. I felt that collodion was a perfect way to connect with subcultures, precisely because of this intimacy. Collodion is not simply about taking their photograph; it is an entirely different process in which I feel more included in who they are.
El sueño del escarabajo, Francia.
"Parler c'est avant tout devenir le pouvoir de parler. Ou bien encore, l'exercice du pouvoir assure la domination de la parole : seuls maîtres peuvent parler. [P]arole et pouvoir entretiennent de rapports tels que le désir de l'un se réalise dans la conquête de l'autre" (Pierre Clastres, La Société contre l'État, chap. 7)
De donde se desprende el deseo pueril que mueve a todo charlatan.
Abandoned Khrenov Estate. 2024. Ambrotype 18x24 I am attaching several enlarged fragments of this photo for examining the detail
Tintype collodion developing process: fascinating to watch it change from negative to positive
@n_oeil
in the studio with Maximilian Zeitler in Berlin