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Update #25: New Expedition: Meditations on Boundary Landscapes
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Posted on March 21
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Update #24: The Camera, Subject, and Me
Quick snaps made on location in a sugarcane field during the Gulf trip.
Update #23: Coastal Bivouac
My tent was set up just behind the levee which marks the beginning of the beach (also visible in the picture). Just on the other side of that hill was the view America was watching on the nightly news. After a long day of working in the oppressive heat and struggling to find “the zone”, I often could not really rest once the sun went down. I would retire to camp to find the temperatures never really seeming to lower and massive swarms of mosquitoes looking to feast. You see, there was a lagoon behind the camera which made the image above. Often the white mesh on the tent would be thick with the blood suckers which were attracted by my breathing and body heat. Rest, was never really rest. Even so, the tent allowed me to stretch out after being on my feet, standing at the rear of the truck at my darkbox all day, or running to the camera 120 yards away over and over.
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Update #22: With Style (Weekly) & Important Information
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Posted on August 18, 2010
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Update #21: The Time Draws Near
I will soon be publishing the names of all of the people who backed the "Exposure" expedition which resulted in the material for Flow. If you would not like to be identified as a backer please let me know.
From my blog:
This is the time in my workflow when the weight lifts from my shoulders. The final movements before the curtain opens to expose the relics of my existence. This is the time when I turn inward and contemplate how I got to this moment. I am drawn to using the wet collodion photographic process, and those related, to create deliberate transmission devices. Each step, each formula mixed, each glass edge ground, and liquid poured, each exposure, each mile driven, each drop of sweat, each finger print, each individual movement, and the unforeseen accidents, each action a deliberate element of the whole. Each task and choice like the steps along a path which circles back upon itself. It is not the unattainable destination of the endless path that is important, but the observation of the continually changing environment which the path traverses.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 8, 2010.
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As a $5 supporter you will receive my thanks, be acknowledged as a supporter of the expedition on my website, blog, etc., you will also have access to backer only updates and receive notification of shows and publications resulting from the project.
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As a $25 supporter, in addition to the recognition provided with the $5 level, you will receive a finely printed 5x7 (the most common plate size I will be making) version of an ambrotype (glass positive) made during the expedition. This is special as I normally do not allow prints from my plate images to be produced.
Pledge $40 or more Pledge $40 or more
As a $40 supporter, in addition to the rewards provided with the $5 level, you will RECEIVE A POSTCARD mailed from Louisiana and a finely printed 5x7 (the most common plate size I will be making) version of an ambrotype (glass positive) that you choose from a SELECTION OF TWO made during the expedition. This is special as I normally do not allow prints from my plate images to be produced.
Pledge $65 or more Pledge $65 or more
As a $65 supporter, in addition to the rewards provided with the $5 level, you will RECEIVE A POSTCARD mailed from Louisiana and a finely printed 5x7 (the most common plate size I will be making) version of an ambrotype (glass positive) that you choose from a SELECTION OF THREE made during the expedition. This is special as I normally do not allow prints from my plate images to be produced.
Pledge $125 or more Pledge $125 or more
As a $125 expedition member, in addition to the recognition provided with the $5 level, something special happens! You will RECEIVE A POSTCARD (with small silver nitrate stain fingerprint) mailed from Louisiana and a finely printed, numbered (edition of 20) and signed 5x7 (the most common plate size I will be making) version of an ambrotype (glass positive) made during the expedition. By now you know why this is special right?
Pledge $250 or more Pledge $250 or more
As a $250 expedition member, in addition to the recognition provided with the $5 level, something special happens! You will RECEIVE A POSTCARD (with small silver nitrate stain fingerprint) mailed from Louisiana and a finely printed, numbered (edition of 15) and signed 5x7 (the most common plate size I will be making) version of an ambrotype (glass positive) that you choose from a SELECTION OF TWO made during the expedition.
Pledge $350 or more Pledge $350 or more
As a $350 expedition member things get sweet. In addition to the recognition provided with the $5 level, and the fingerprinted postcard mailed from Louisiana you haul in ONE OF EACH of the numbered and signed 5x7 prints from the $125 and $250 levels! That is a total of THREE limited edition reproductions of ambrotypes presented in life size.
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This is heavy stuff here. Pledge here and you become not only a serious facilitator of this expedition (and post-production requirements), but you become the owner of a unique art object- unlike digital and modern film based photography, ambrotypes are a one-of-a-kind image/object. You will receive an authentic 5x7 wet collodion ambrotype finished in the historic fashion with handmade gum sandarac and lavender varnish. Along with the ambrotype, you will receive a written account of the situation surrounding the creation of the plate and details about the subject of the image. The back of the glass plate will be marked with a personal thank you and the location and date of creation. You will of course receive the fingerprinted postcard from Louisiana and the rewards found at the $5 support level, but you will also receive special recognition during talks, lectures, shows, etc. that make use of the material created during the expedition.
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Phil Nesmith is an award winning photographer who works with a wide array of methods and materials. He has used the camera to explore his experiences with war in both Bosnia and Iraq, border life in Arizona, and most recently the BP oil spill of 2010. His current photographic practice is anchored by the plate methods of the 19th Century, which he uses to investigate the past and rekindle a sense of wonder lost in the modern world. His most recent work focuses on the contemporary world’s disconnection with time, the natural world and the dismissal of human impact on the environment.
Phil's work has been shown across the United States including at Irvine Contemporary and the Art Museum of The Americas in Washington D.C. and internationally at The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai, UAE. His work has been reviewed by Art in America, NPR, the Washington Post, and Capitol File Magazine, among others.
Residing in the Richmond, Virginia area, Phil teaches photography at Virginia State University and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). He also lectures and conducts demonstrations throughout the state on historic plate photographic topics for the VMFA.
