Two of the young ladies and their handiwork
It is so great to have friends like Carmela Aliffi who is the art teacher at St. Vincent’s Academy in Savannah, GA. She does such a great job with those kids and inspires them daily to create and learn and to love art. She has been a great support to me personally and artistically and has invited on more than one occasion to come and share my photography with her students. Last time was a couple of years ago and we did paper negatives with my 8x10 camera.
Just this year, I started doing tintype, or, as it is sometimes called, wet-plate collodion photography. It is great to take 150 years of photographic technology and through it out the window. I have been pretty much limited to working at or close to my studio on Waters Avenue. But St. Vincent’s has a great little darkroom and I was able to load up my camera, chemistry and set up there. Easy peazy!
Framing up the shot
I have no idea what this gesture means!
The students, I think they were all juniors and seniors, seemed to really get into the process. I know I had fun. The thing about working in these old processes is that it is exciting just to get an image and today we got some nice ones and had a fun educational time doing it.
I am going back on Wednesday and on Thursday so hopefully all the students will get a chance to shoot and maybe if we are lucky get to coat a plate. Happy tintyping!