Wet Plate Collodion Photography
5 Day workshop w/ Jonathan Sadler

July 09 – 13, 2018 (5 Day + 6 Night)
Students arrive July 08, 8pm, leave July 14
All Levels

Jonathan Sadler returns to The Atlanta School for a third year.  In his workshop students will study wet plate collodion photography (tintypes). Using this nineteenth century photographic process, photographers like William Henry Jackson would hike, packing a substantial amount of photographic gear on a donkey, to the tops of mountains and would then expertly pour the collodion onto the plate, sensitize the plate with silver, expose and process the plate all before it dries. Taking inspiration from Henry and his cronies working in remote wilderness and primitive western towns we will experience wet plate processes in the similar surroundings of Atlanta, Idaho.  

This process requires longer exposures so we will concentrate on architecture and inanimate objects but will explore portraiture as well. 

This fee includes workshop, lab fees, and lodging for six nights.

About Jonathan Sadler
Jonathan Sadler recently relocated to Boise from Chicago, Illinois where he still maintains a studio with his collaborative partner, Luke Batten. Jonathan’s collaboration goes by the name New Catalogue.  Using a methodology that both parallels and gently ridicules the concept of stock photo agencies, New Catalogue creates photographs that tap into popular culture while expanding on traditional photographic genres. Jonathan has shown nationally and internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Indianapolis Museum of Art and the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic among others. His work is included in the permanent collections of many major museums.  Jonathan teaches all levels of Photography at Boise State University.