Keeping the galleries section international are the Daguerreotypes of Åke Hultman. Åke comes from Sweden and uses both the cold mercury and Becquerel processes.

I use microfibre on the copper plates as a last step. It doesn’t seem to hurt or do much of anything but it makes me feel better.

Whole plate and heavenly – the Daguerreotypes of Gregory Popovitch are our new gallery. Unmistakably modern they are also mercurial in their making. A practitioner since 2003 Gregory finds “solace in creating one of a kind objects using the manual, demanding and unpredictable Daguerreotype process”.

A trained silversmith with his own hallmark is the next Daguerriean to join our gallery ranks. Brenton uses both Mercurial and Becquerel processes as well as making his own modern cases and is based in the UK.

John Hurlock has been making Daguerreotypes since 1956 and uses cold mercury development (the plates are developed in a vacuum where the mercury off gases at a high rate). Stereoscopic, botanicals, architectural and portrait images grace his website and now our galleries sections as well.

Daguerreotypes of Antarctica by Joyce Campbell are the newest additions to our gallery section. The 5×7″ plates are part of a “Last Light” series of images made in the Ross sea region in 2006.

Thank you for posting this Andy! I’m going to be moving shortly and will no longer have (much) access to a myriad of tools including a buffing machine. So this leaves me with buffing everything by hand for the moment. Perhaps it’ll give me more appreciation for a buffing machine when I get one ” title=”Wink” />

A new feature of the website is the Resources section to provide articles/manuals on Daguerreotypy as well as links and other essential textual information. We hope to grow this as online resource of renown, but it the meantime here is its humble beginnings. If you have articles or information you’d like to submit please contact the administrators – contact addresses now in the About section.

Latest to join our gallery ranks is Mike Robinson of Toronto. Mike uses the mercurial process with clad plates and as you can see in the gallery, has the process to perfection. He can also do hand coloring by applying pigments directly onto the plate with astonishing effect. Mike also teaches workshops regularly.