Come learn the the antique, photographic process of the tintype! Participants will be lead through all stages of the wet-plate collodion process: the techniques of preparing a plate, the pouring of collodion, plus exposing, developing, fixing, and varnishing, with special attention to chemical care and safety. Students will work together and one-on-one with Cole Caswell, and produce up to three unique, one-of-a-kind tintype photographs.
Registration is $250 per person, which includes supplies and chemistry.
Space is limited to 12 participants.
The Bakery will host an artist talk with Cole Caswell on Thursday, July 22nd, from 7pm to 8pm. Click here for more details.
About the Artist
Cole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival. Through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and his surroundings, Caswell investigates geography and its impact on our perceived ability to survive. He uses traditional, historic and digital photographic media to investigate our present condition. For most of the year Cole is working and living in a nomadic format traveling throughout the county exploring our ability to subsist within the contemporary environment. Caswell travels in an 80’s VW camper van with a portable darkroom mounted to the back and uses alternative photographic processes to create works while in the field.
When the warmer weather returns to Maine he migrates towards his studio on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland. In 2009 Caswell started offering Tintype portrait commission to the public under the project name AGNO3lab which is still actively being invited to various venues from wild hog BBQs in the everglades of Florida to the Colby Art Museum in Maine. Constantly working on many types of projects Cole has collaborated with the arts collective Spurse, The Nation Park System, and The Kohler Center for The Arts. He currently holds adjunct faculty positions at Southern Maine Community College, and Prescott College in Arizona – where he develops and teaches photography courses remotely. In addition to these teachings Cole has lectured at the Maine Media Workshops, Kohler Arts Center, Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University and the Bakery Photo Collective.