Nuit Blanche

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18-06-2012
Geen categorie, medallion, ON THE ROAD, PORTRAIT, TINTYPE

black aluminum tintype 12 cm x 9 cm

black aluminum tintype 12 cm x 9 cm

 

miniature black aluminum tintype 2.8 cm x 4 cm

 

miniature black aluminum tintype 2.8 cm x 4 cm

 

In between the two day hang-out in Amersfoort we drove back to Amsterdam to enjoy some tintyping in the middle of the night at Starbikes, one of the spots where Nuit Blanche was held. The ladies ‘Van de Wijs’ came up with a Parisian ‘Bicycle Boudoir’. It was quite windy, we broke a few lightbulbs, but besides that it was an awesome evening with nice guests and gladly enough Club Mate, to keep us awake. Around 3 o’clock we left, knowing that within a few hours we’d be on our way back to Amersfoort again.

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TinType Studio @ Amersfoort Photofestival

By: admin
17-06-2012
Alex Timmermans, Geen categorie, Luther Gerlach, medallion, ON THE ROAD, PORTRAIT, TINTYPE

 

While Luther & Peter were making ultra large format ambrotypes and Alex medium size plates (some nice ones of us!), we completed this weekend with the tiny medallion size tintypes. Good weather, nice live music and all in a beautiful garden (with wild strawberries!)

Alex Timmermans has a nice impression on his blog, so check it out, too!

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Tintype Studio @ Ecuelles, France

By: admin
05-06-2012
ON THE ROAD, SELF-PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE, TINTYPE, WORK

All black aluminum tintype 9cm x 12cm or 13cm x 18cm

 

 

April 2012, Ecuelles, France. A beautiful sight along the river Saone. Birds of pray everywhere, owls, lots of buzzing bees… As long as we’re not able to live in such a nice place, we’re glad that we have friends who do!

A good opportunity to test our mobile dark box… It still needs some adjustments, but we were perfectly able to use it for small and medium plates.
The blind curtain works well and so is the functionality of the bended tent-piece for holding the cloth!

 

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Cool Plant + Beautiful Light + Bad Chemistry

By: admin
03-06-2012
STILL LIFE, TINTYPE

“Cool Plant” black aluminum tintype 18cm x 24cm

 

Cool Plant + Beautiful Light + Bad Chemistry

Joy Joy JOY it is not to be in total control. In keeps surprising what can or doesn’t happen whilst making a plate…

But most of the time it’s the developer… always the developer…

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Anouk & Daan

By: admin
01-06-2012
PORTRAIT, TINTYPE, WORK

“Anouk 35″ black aluminum tintype 13cm x 18cm

(left) “Anouk”  black aluminum tintype 18cm x 24cm (right) “Daan”  black aluminum tintype 18cm x 24cm

“A&D”  black glass double exposed ambrotype 18cm x 24cm

 

Portraits we shot from two of our beautiful friends.

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Tintype Studio @ Vervallen Villa Festival, NL

By: admin
29-05-2012
medallion, ON THE ROAD, PORTRAIT, PROCESS, TINTYPE

 

 

The weekend of the 26th and 27th of May the Tintype Studio was present at a small festival in beautiful Groenekan where we made tiny tintypes to be worn as jewels! It was hard work, and we are sorry for all the people who couldn’t be ‘tintyped’ because of the huge waiting list. Our spot was marvellous: in the shadow of a big big… no a really big tree, view over the stream behind the garden and accompanied by fantastic people.

For us a great opportunity to test our mobile darkbox! Now we can make the definite design for the real thing… and hopefully produce it for the use at more festivals and parties.

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Medallion try-out for Vervallen Villa Festival

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24-05-2012
medallion, NEWS, PORTRAIT, TINTYPE

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The Day After…

By: admin
18-05-2012
STILL LIFE, TINTYPE

 

May 18 was the day, my tintyping other half turned 35! Yes… a beautiful opportunity for a supriseparty in our studio… Around 9 o’clock 35 friends arrived dressed with Arjen-look-a-like-black beards, equipped with some sound gear and their DJ skills. Before Arjen knew what happened our studio morphed into a party-place.
Next day before cleaning, enjoying a bit of a hang-over… He took this shot, as a BIG BIG thanks to all who joined. Friends forever… :)

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European Wet Plate Collodion Weekend Eindhoven: the results…

By: admin
18-04-2012
EUROPEAN WET PLATE COLLODION WEEKEND 2012, EXHIBITION, Luther Gerlach, TINTYPE

 

A small impression of this fabulous weekend. Some tintypes we made and some nice B&W images with thanks to Peter Kunz. I think he took one of the best shots ever: Luther peeking over my shoulder whilst varnishing a plate :)

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European Wet Plate Collodion Weekend Eindhoven

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17-04-2012
EUROPEAN WET PLATE COLLODION WEEKEND 2012, EXHIBITION, Luther Gerlach, NEWS

 

What more can we say but thank you, Alex, Jan, Luther, Fabrice, Alexey and Artur  and Photo Academy Eindhoven! It was a great weekend with so much new information, good advice and a lot of sharing knowledge and experiences.

THANK YOU! See you all next time!

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About

Designers and imagemakers, Went& Navarro are experimenting with an old photographic process from around 1850. It’s a real hands-on process called Wet Plate Collodion. It was not intended as so, but this seems to create the perfect balance between their (mostly) digital work and their designer fascination for the tactile. What started as a bit of an awkward hobby, now becomes a ongoing project that encourages them to explore the overlap between image and object.
Of course making Tintypes and Ambrotypes is not all they do, so for other work you can check out www.wentennavarro.nl

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