Joni Sternbach is a photographer from New York who specialises in the early wet plate collodion photographic technique. she has many beautiful projects to explore on her website, but the one that caught my eye was Surfland – where Joni documents surfers on the coasts of the US and Australia.
SurfLand is an ongoing project of contemporary portraits of surfers created using the historic wet-plate collodion process. The photographs are a unique blending of subject matter and photographic technique. Using the instantaneous wet-plate collodion process, I am creating one-of-a-kind tintypes that are imbued with a feeling of ambiguity, timelessness and mystery.
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Woaw beautiful, and really timeless. love it!
These are so stunning and effective. Mysterious indeed.
x Eloise
these are beautiful!
these silvery photos of surfers via @missmoss are wonderful http://t.co/DvS0kzPxTL
WOW-WOW WOBZY!!!
amazing work ! i will now go to Joni’s site to explore :)
Joni Sternbach takes a very different kind of surf photo – using Victorian wet plate technique via @miss_moss http://t.co/gC4kmZiB3G
Incredible post, Diana!
I love her work! Her series on the Everglades is great too… I am happy to report that I have her first Surfland book (I hear she’s been adding to the project since) & that printed and as an entire collection to hold and view in your own two hands it is just as fabulous as you would hope! Cheers x
Oops my bad.. the Everglades series is actually by another favorite wet plate photographer – Lisa Elmaleh – but she’s worth checking out too!
Joni was my teacher! I learned Collodion with her and nothing in the word has made me as happy as when I used to spend the afternoons with her taking 19 century photos on a beach somewhere in the Hamptons. She is beyond amazing!