The art of creating photographs using old photographic processes has officially gained the status of protected cultural heritage in Croatia.
The art of creating photographs using old photographic processes has officially gained the status of protected cultural heritage in Croatia.
On the same day, a gathering of photographers called Foto Kapljica and my presentation of old wet plate collodion photographic techniques—ambrotypes, tintypes, and collodion negatives—were held in Rastoke, Croatia.
An international photo exhibition of the Skupina75 Photo Club was opened in the Gorica Cultural Center, where my photos made in the old ambrotype and tintype techniques were exhibited. Thanks to all the organizers for the beautiful gathering and enjoying the photographs.
Marcel Proust spoke about the search for lost time, about his personal experiences that he tries to reconstruct; Pildek talks about the time he personally lived through, as well as about the space he did not personally experience at the time of its functioning, that is, it was not lost for him, but he tries to reconstruct it based on certain parameters.
The last darkroom was made due to the transition to old photo techniques. Many photographs were made in many techniques (ambrotype, tintype, collodion negative, kallitype, salted paper, albumin, vanDyke, gumoil, collodion chloride, cyanotype on paper, and cyanotype on glass)
After working in a dozen techniques, it was carbon print's turn. Carbon print's dynamic range of printed photography cannot be simply described. You have to see it live. If you have seen exceptional photos made in carbon print on the web, know that they look even more perfect in person.
Damir Pildek
In the era of universal digitalization and digital pixelization of the world, especially the photographic one, which is already available to everyone with an ordinary cell phone, photographer Damir Pildek introduces us with this exhibition to the almost mythical realm of photographs of classical antiquity.
Tomorrow Dominic Miller's new album "Vagabond" is officially released, and on it is a portrait - an ambrotype "in the old style" from my small workshop on Jarun.
In order for the bath to always be "correct", it requires occasional "maintenance".
Alcohol and ether should be removed from it and lost silver should be added. The pH value should be regulated depending on which collodion procedure we use.
After starting to work in a large format (4x5), I wanted to work with picture formats that I could exhibit directly. The technology and materials are the same, and the shooting is the same(?), but you need an ULTRA-LARGE format CAMERA
After using the cyanotype technique on paper, I tried another technique – cyanotype on glass. Liquid emulsion is applied to glass and washed with water.
The task sounds simple. Is it?
When I was fifteen years old, I built an improvised darkroom using two tables and three darkroom trays to develop black-and-white films. I used an old camera and a condenser from an army waste to enlarge photographs
