Wet Plate Collodion: Rich

• Prize
  Silver in Advertising/Music
• Photographer
  Brence Coghill, Australia
• Date of Photograph
  19 April 2019
• Studio
  Image Workshop
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.imageworkshop.com

Wet plate collodion image of alt-country singer-songwriter Rich Webb.
Shot on a Svedofsky large format field camera on an 8x10” aluminium plate using the mid-1850s ‘tintype’ process. The plate is hand-coated with liquid collodion and submerged in silver nitrate. The sensitized plate is loaded into the camera for a single exposure and is immediately developed while still wet. Each shot takes 15-20 minutes to execute.
This image was used by Rich for the cover art of his single ‘Me and My Horse Trigger’, a song about nostalgia and people wanting to revisit an imagined simpler time in the past.

• Biography
  Commercial photographer who also practices Wet Plate Collodion photography.
• Awards
  2019 Silver Winner, Bronze Winner and an Honourable Mention – Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019 5x Highly Commended and 3x Honourable Mentions – Australian Photography Awards 2019 Honourable Mention – International Photography Awards 2019 Silver Winner – Prix de la Photographie Paris 2017 Featured in Capture Magazine ‘The Annual’ of the best photographers in Australia 2016 Double Finalist – Australian Photography Awards