wedding wetplates for veronika & max

shooting wedding wetplates for veronika & max was fun!
we had a good time, nice plates and some beers - weddings have to be celebrated!

final plates: 20x25cm handmade black glass ambrotypes
signed on reverse, levitated framing in solid black wooden frames
smooth grey passe-partout, uv-protecting museum glass

empty kingdom

"If you don’t know what wet-plate photography is, educate and enlighten yourselves"

emptykingdom.com

my work published in PH-Magazine

my portfolio is featured in Canada`s wonderful PH-Magazine

PHmagazine is a monthly publication without prejudice, focused on the world of photography and open to everybody. "we strongly believe that a good photography doesn’t necessary need “big” names on either side of the camera, our only criterion is quality"

have a look at this wonderful mag and also the work of all the other amazing photographers and their work.

making-of Wetplate Workshop Bern, Switzerland

making-of pictures of the wetplate workshop in Bern in May this year.
great people, fantastic location, lovely city. hope to ge there again in 2012!

many thanks to our host Karin Scheidegger and to David Marquis for the pictures!
click on the pictures or this link to see the whole album

Ausstellung "Ambrotypien" am 28. Juni in Neunkirchen

Doppelausstellung mit Prof. Werner Rischanek. Die Vernissage der Fotoausstellung „findet am Dienstag, 28. Juni um 19.30 Uhr in der Fotogalerie Feuerbachl in Neunkirchen statt.

http://www.noen.at/lokales/noe-uebersicht/neunkirchen/kultur/Uralte-Fototechniken-im-Fokus%3Bart2527,165781

portraits for M.&G.

commissioned portraits

20x25 cm handmade black glass ambrotypes
signed on reverse
levitated framing in solid black wooden frames
smooth grey passe-partout
protecting glass

Pix Mix @ Dampfzentrale Bern

ambrotypes, photos & 'making of' pictures of my wetplate workshop in bern, switzerland are presented tonight PIXMIX Vol. 48 - 25. Mai 2011 by Karin Scheidegger and David Marquis @ dampfzentrale bern

switzerland get ready for wetplates!

preparations for my switzerland trip next weekend.
there will be a wetplate workshop at the 'atelier am uferweg' in bern from 20-22 may.
and there is a wonderful event called pixpix at the dampfentrale bern where pictures and wetplates of my workshop will be presented.
thanks to karin scheidegger & david marquis for supporting me there!

i am looking forward to bern!

'making of' wetplate workshop hamburg

thanks to Wim de Knegt for taking some making of pictures of the wetplate workshop im hamburg this april. it was again a lot of fun with really interesting people - a lot of good plates turned out at this course, congratulations!
see more pictures here!

polaroid ftw!

maybe it's becasuse of the look, the frame, the colour, the imperfection, the aesthetics or maybe it is because i just love instant pictures - i guess it is all together why i like polaroids so much. thanks to peter bauer who took this silver shade polaroid at my wetplate workshop in hamburg.

Phototriennale Hamburg - exhibition at gallery Farbwerke

A wonderful wetplate exhibition took place at Phototriennale Hamburg in Galerie Farbwerke M6 from 1-13 April 2011. I am really proud that this exhibition is together with my former workshop participants Esther Haase, Oliver Rolf, J.Konrad Schmidt and Hendrik Faure. It is quite nice that my work attracts so much interest to people and my knowledge i teach in workshops develops in a really good way. Fantastic we could do this exhibition together.

Galerie Farbwerke M6
Marktstraße 5
20357 Hamburg
open from 1-13 april daily from 12-19
Phototriennale Hamburg

everybody interested in wetplate photography and visiting Hamburg for the Phototriennale: there are still places for my wetplate workshops available. please find all information and dates here.

Meta.Morph in Vogue Italia

the project for designer Una Burke is featured in the italian vogue, go have a look at the amazing video by andreas waldschütz http://www.vogue.it/talents/vogue-video-lab/2011/03/meta-morph

Interview about my work by Alexandra v. Quatt

when shooting for the Una Burke project in Vienna, Alexandra arrived at the set to see what's going on, and she immediately fell in love with my work. here's a little interview by her (in german): http://fb.me/KYgAh7jl

meta.morph / a collaborative project for london fashion week

this project was launched as part of london fashion week at úna burke’s vauxhall fashion scout presentation at the freemasons hall. it was a synthesized haunting experience, comprising of wet plate images by stefan sappert, installations from úna’s autumn-winter 2011 collection and experimental film by andreas waldschütz & adia trischler.

Kurzbeitrag Ausstellung 'Osteogenesis Imperfecta'

william fitzsimmons

8x10" black glass ambrotype, signed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3AB6NrfiaM

misty winterdream

5x7" ambrotype on black glass

winner of the merit award from b&w magazine

i am happy to announce that i recieved a merit award at the b&w magazine portfolio contest 2010 for my portrait work.
my photographs are presented in the b&w magazine special issue No.76
http://www.stefansappert.com/collodion/portraits/
http://www.bandwmag.com/

workshop at prager fotoschule österreich

thanks to nicole herb for the documentation. see more pictures from the workshop

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Hans Söllner

portraits for jenny

my work @ fotomagazin 'der greif'

das fotomagazin "der greif" präsentiert meine arbeiten nach der printausgabe nun auch online: dergreif-online.de

Wetplate Photography Workshop in Hamburg

it was a pleasure to hold 2 workshops at platinum oliver rolf in hamburg. everybody had fun and learned a lot, very productive and creative people in hamburg! looking forward to come again in 2011!

participants: Esther Haase, Sabine Zorn (Kunstmuseum Bern), Martin Jürgens (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), J. Konrad Schmidt, Thomas Meyer, Stefan Dieterich, Kathleen Alisch, Karoline Schneider, Marco Schwarz, Oliver Rolf, Axel Jakobi, Artur Kowallick, Andreas Kollmann, Hendrik Faure, Gianpaolo Aroffu

Der Greif #3

a choice of my collodion wetplate photographs are presented in the 3rd edition of the large format art photography magazine 'der greif'
http://www.dergreif-online.de/

osteogenesis imperfecta on tv

a report about osteogenesis imperfecta on austria's television orf2 also included my project

exhibition 'mehr licht', gallery 4-8, bern (switzerland)

'mehr licht' is a collective exhibition at gallery 4-8 in bern where i am part of with the 'osteogenesis imperfacta' project. the exhibition will be on view from 11th till 25th of july 2010


pictures from the opening

http://www.vfdkv.ch/