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This is the first part of my blog series for silver bath maintenance. In this part, the basics are described and focusses for beginning practitioners of collodion wetplate photography.

End of October, I had the possibility to hold a collodion workshop at Marubi National Museum of Photography in Shkodër, located in the north of Albania and hold a two day workshop about the collodion wetplate process. The city has a 2400 years history being located at three rivers that made trade very important.

From 21st until 24th of September, the Photopia took place in Hamburg. Luckily, I was invited by Khrome – a top notch analog camera store and lab – to pour some plates during the first three days.

In the 1830ies, a new era began as many chemists found different ways to capture the environment with silver and light. A camera obscura was used to collect the light of an object through a lens and concentrate the rays of light on photosensitive material. Here is a very low-level approach to explain how a

In the 1850ies, the french photographer  Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard developed a new printing method based on silverchlorides: the albumen paper process. Here is a short summary about making albumen paper. This is just a brief step by step introduction pf this process.

I am honored that a double paged article was published in RAZ Magazin, a Berlin local magazine for the northern part of Berlin.