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John’s Shutter Hub Blog
The following blog entry was originally featured on Shutter Hub as part of a blog series written by artists involved in the Alternative Process exhibition currently running at The Engine Room in...
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Happy New Year!
Although we only set up our website a short while ago at the end of October, it seems like a lot has happened since then, including workshops in London and Manchester, the Shutterhub exhibition and a...
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Exhibitions of interest in 2015
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON Paul and Virginia, 1864 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 28 November 2015 – 14 February 2016 Supported by The Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation This donation was made...
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Royal Photographic Society Journal Article
Back in January, journalist Helen Clifton came to our studio in Manchester so that John could teach her how to make an albumen print from a wetplate negative. The idea of the day was to recreate an...
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Analogue Tribes – John Brewer
Recently, filmmaker and art director Anton Artemenkov visited the studio to make a short film about John as part of the ‘Analogue Tribes’ series. Analogue Tribes “is a web series of short films...
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Prospectuses for University Campus Suffolk at Ipswich
John has been shooting wet plate portraits for the covers of the Undergraduate, International and Postgraduate prospectuses for University Campus Suffolk at Ipswich. From the University’s website:...
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Drawn by Light Exhibition
We recently made a very enjoyable trip to the National Media Museum in Bradford on the 28th March to see the wonderful Drawn By Light exhibition being held there from March 20th to June 21st. There are...
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Photoshoot for ‘The Ninetree Stumblers’
John recently did a wet plate photoshoot for The Ninetree Stumblers, a three-piece band that performs vintage American music of 1920s and ’30s. The band is headed by Liam Kirby, with Ruth Gordon and...
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A Haunting at Beckley Park
We had a great time doing a little spirit photography for a short ghost film being made at Beckley Park, Oxfordshire. As soon as we arrived at Beckley (“first enclosed”, Wikipedia tells us, “in the...
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‘Out of the Ether’ course, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
At the end of June, we had a great time teaching wet plate collodion at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh. It’s a couple of years since we’ve taught a course there and it was lovely to be back in this...
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Q & A with Nicky Thompson
Nicky Thompson’s portrait of Sophie Mor John first met Nicky Thompson at his Manchester studio in 2012 where Nicky was learning the wetplate collodion process. Here is an interview he did with her...
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Here are the dates for wetplate collodion workshops coming up in 2016. These are group workshops. If you would rather have a one to one workshop and/or a workshop tailored to your individual needs...
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UK Collodion Workshops with the Ostermans
The Ostermans Collodion Workshops (ambrotypes, tintypes, negatives) in the UK with Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman June 2016. by Mark Osterman In conjunction with George Eastman Museum the...
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Exhibition at Dimbola Lodge
Friday 15th April saw the private viewing of John’s exhibition ‘In Search of Lost Time’. The plates were exhibited in The Charles Hay Cameron Gallery at Dimbola Lodge, the ancestral home of Julia...
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Wetplate Workshop at Sheffield Hallam University
On the 12th and 13th of July, John was invited to teach wetplate at Sheffield Hallam University to members of staff: Michèle Lazenby, Senior Lecturer, BA HONS Photography, Media Arts; Darcy White MA,...
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Photoshoot with Eamonn McCabe for BBC 4
On the 3rd of August, John was asked to photograph Eamonn McCabe for a BBC 4 program. You’ll have to wait until spring to find out more!
View ArticleCyanotype Project at The Lotus Childrens Centre
During mid-August Sebnem Ugural, who John knows from E5 Darkroom in Hackney, went to Mongolia to work with children at The Lotus Childrens Centre. Lotus Children’s Centre is an official Mongolian non-...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Batman v Superman Recently, John assisted Stephen Berkman in shooting a wet plate image for the 2016 American superhero film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, featuring the DC Comics characters...
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Lomography – Wetplate experiments with the new Lomo Daguerreotype Lens
Earlier in the month, John was contacted by Lomography, the Lomo Camera Company’s online magazine to trial their new Daguerreotype lens. You can read the interview and see some images here.
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‘See Me’ Exhibition, Pride 2018, Isle of Wight
Kate & John, enjoying a pint after the workshop John and I were so happy to be invited to participate in the IWPride Arts Festival, as part of a fabulous LGBT+ photography project called See Me,...
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