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Funding for "Farmers and Farmscapes"

Funding for "Farmers and Farmscapes"

|Crystal Calabrese
*Photographs in this blog post were taken by Jill Bornand I have received grant funding to continue my “Farmers and Farmscapes” documentary tintype project! I am ecstatic to have been...
Building a tiny darkroom

Building a tiny darkroom

|Crystal Calabrese
 In the winter of 2024, I built a darkroom on an old 5' x 8' trailer. The idea was to have a semi-mobile darkroom that would spend most of its...
Cows, Cameras, and Coffer’s Camp Tintype

Cows, Cameras, and Coffer’s Camp Tintype

|Crystal Calabrese
In June 2023, I was fortunate to learn tintype photography at a “Camp Tintype” workshop with legendary alternative process photographer, John Coffer. https://www.johncoffer.com John lives on a farm in Dundee, in the...