The first contemporary daguerreotypes website from China can now be seen at lijunyi.com. Li sent us 4 scans of his 18x24cm (approx 8×10″) work which has been added to his gallery.

Rob McElroy’s next workshop offering is May 19-21, 2012 in Buffalo, NY. For more info see here and images of his last years workshop can be seen here.

Also Rob is offering on ebay a rare thing – modern daguerreian supplies – his daguerreotype polishing powder.

Takashi Arai has a new solo exhibition entitled “Here and There – Ashita no Shima (Tomorrow’s Islands)” in Tokyo.

Date: March 14 – 20, 2012
Open Everyday: 10:30am – 6:30pm
Place: Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

Trending in the dagosphere now is portable darkrooms and not just the adapted interior of vehicles, but purpose built trailers. Casey Waters is the latest to take to the road and at the March Antique photo show in Washington D.C. he has been commissioned to make a whole plate of the event.

Our man on the spot Jerry Spagnoli took this plate at last weeks Giants ticker tape parade for their Super Bowl win.

Binh Danh has created three new plates that have been added to his gallery.  They are a part of his series on Yosemite.

Five images of Lacock Abbey by Mike have been added to his gallery, taken when teaching a workshop there.

A new image from Walter Johnson showing off his new presentation format.

Åke Hultman, of Sweden, has just published a Blurb book about his daguerreotypes entitled, CONTEMPORARY DAGUERREOTYPES 2006-2011. Click here to purchase the book and use the code SHIPFREE2 for free shipping (the code might only be available for a limited time).