Berlin was awesome. From a financial
and time management perspective, spending 5 days away with so much to
do before I take over the gallery space would seem nothing less than
irresponsible, foolish, and down right crazy. But then, that seems to
be the working theme these days.
I know that once the looming whirlwind
begins, there will never be the truly perfect time to indulge in such
an opportunity. Just like my rationale for opening the gallery is of
the now-or-never variety, so was my thinking in regards to the wet
plate collodion workshop.
Though the techniques themselves are so
foreign to just about everything that has become modern photography,
the parallels between wet plate's 160 year old processes and my
fateful darkroom day some 19 years ago are not only impossible to
ignore, the goosebumps remind me precisely what is was that I fell in
love with in the first place.
It's amazing that something so old, can
feel so new again.
A big credit and thank you to Marcin
Dzieniszewski of www.tintypeberlin.com for awesome portrait, as well as the experience and
hospitality that will be remembered for a lifetime.
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