Another self taught daguerreotypist with a new gallery is a professor at the University of Barcelona teaching about historical photographic processes. Mercury developed but until now only sensitised with iodine, Alfonso has been taking on Daguerre’s original process. Keen to take on portraiture he is now experimenting with the addition of bromine to the process. Alfonso is also exhibiting at Bry later in the year.

Daguerreotypes from Russia join our galleries, an artist called Bailun who started gathering equipment and materials in 2002, produced his first images in 2004. He has found it very difficult to gain some of the chemicals in Russia but his persistence paid off. Bailun will be one of the exhibitors at this years exhibit in Bry sur Marne.

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Entries for the exhibit in Bry sur Marne close on the 15th of June and so far there are 30 exhibitors from 13 countries. The poster has been finalised – click here for a pdf.

Some may not have noticed that along the end of the navigation menu on this page is great opportunity for discovery and expression – the Wiki. We have tweaked the layout so that the main page is now the Daguerreotype process page, something most have a opinion on. If when reading you discover something not quite right or want to add another perspective – jump right in and edit the page.

We three editors are already planning on cdags 2.0, the next version of the site, which will more fully intergrate the blog, dagforum and wiki for functions such as search results. That may not be in the immediate future but in the meantime with your help we are still expanding on galleries, resources and of course that great oracle in the making – the Wiki.