Commissioned as a Deep Water Lab initative, visual artist Kaitlyn Danielson will create a unique series of tintype portraits of this year’s participants. Tintypes are a 19th-century photographic wet plate collodion process, popularized during the Civil War, that made portraiture accessible to everyday people while embedding them in a specific historical moment. This project draws inspiration from that lineage while reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens focused on presence, stillness, and perception. Central to the project is a one-minute exposure made inside the historic vault of Kaitlyn’s studio on Main Street Narrowsburg. Unlike modern photography’s instantaneous capture, this extended duration requires participants to remain still. During the exposure, Kaitlyn will leave the room, giving each participant a minute of solitude.
The project emphasizes collaboration between artist and subject, and each resulting image reflects both physical stillness and the passage of time.
Each hand-finished tintype will be scanned and given to the participant as a unique physical artifact of a singular moment in time.
Date
Jun 20 to Jun 21
Featuring
Kaitlyn Danielson
Kaitlyn Danielson is a visual artist based in Narrowsburg, NY. She holds a BFA in Photography & Video from the School of Visual Arts, where she received the Alumni Scholarship Award and the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Students. Her work has been exhibited both internationally and throughout the United States and has been featured in PDN Magazine, Musée Magazine, Brutjournal, and Lenscratch. Kaitlyn is the founder of EVER, her working art studio, photo darkroom, and community resource on Main Street in Narrowsburg, committed to the preservation of historic photographic processes. Kaitlyn’s practice is rooted in historic photographic processes, relying on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce images. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that she explores in her work.
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