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Maya Farmelo. Tintype image made with wetplate collodion process. Sean Hawkey.
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Glass positive of Thomas Sims, 1845. Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery
Exhibition
Capturing on Collodion
27 Jan 2017 – 27 May 2017
Event times
27 January - 27 May
Tuesday - Saturday: 9:30 - 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- The Amelia
- Civic Centre, Mount Pleasant,
- Royal Tunbridge Wells
England - TN1 1JN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus stops out side The Amelia at the War Memorial in the centre of town.
- The Amelia is a 5 minute walk uphill from Tunbridge Wells train station.
An exhibition featuring work by photographer Sean Hawkey and historic photographs and equipment from the collection at Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery.
About
Photographer Sean Hawkey (http://www.hawkey.co.uk/) has worked across the world documenting lives and diverse communities. His work as a photojournalist has led him to evaluate the impact of the photograph on the story of people's lives. For this exhibition Hawkey has chosen to work with the Victorian wet plate collodion process to make his images. Using original camera and lens from the 1870s, Hawkey captures portraits of people which have an intense, ethereal beauty to them.
The photographic process involves a complex layering of chemicals, including silver nitrate, on a tin plate which is exposed to light through the camera lens and developed, producing a single image. This technique does not produce a perfect image but instead each imperfection on the plate becomes a feature within the portrait, enabling the essence of the sitter to emerge.
