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My last creative portrait for Mladina weekly
Today is an important day in my career. After almost eight years I finished my regular collaboration with Mladina weekly. I mean I will still be doing a cover here and there and some special issue, but...
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Klemen Slakonja, wet plate portait
Klemen Slakonja is an actor and rising star of TV show business in Slovenia. Few weeks ago I had to make his portrait, but it was raining. I decided to do the portrait in wet plate collodion just the...
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Portraying passion is back
Sorry for not blogging for a while. You must understand me, I quit my job of photojournalist where I was working for almost 8 years and was working my ass off to provide income elsewhere. And proudly I...
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Raising stakes on my art career
Now, after I quit my long-term job as a photojournalist, I’m raising stakes on my art career. I have the best possible education a photographer could wish, I’ve graduated at Prague’s FAMU Academy, was...
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Twist Wet Plate Collodion process at 30 °C
A week ago the Fotopub Festival finished. I was a founder of the festival in 2001 and was running the show for seven years and today I’m proud to say that the level is so high I gladly enrol as a...
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Monetizing wet plate collodion process
As you can imagine this wet plate process is not cheap and as a professional photographer I need and want to make a living with wet plate collodion process. I’m presenting two commercial projects in...
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B5 tour de Switzerland & Deutschland
Last week it was a topshit week. Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko are my dear friends from Fabrica / Benetton times. Sasha was invited to prepare an exhibition in Eisenwerk – Frauenfeld. I’ll talk more...
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Wet plate collodion process and silver-bath maintenance
My last post was about my commision in Switzerland. I’ve shot many plates and when I’ve came back I was sunning the bath for a day (bright sunny day), filtering, etc, but I was still not getting that...
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How to make a ground glass for view camera
I’ve broken my ground glass on my Vageeswari camera and I’ve made a new one. Read captions. Filed under: analog photography, Large format camera, Photography, writting on photography
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The Great Depression, a wet plate collodion documentary project by Borut...
I’m inviting you to the opening of my exhibition The Great Depression. The opening will happen on 4th of October 2013 in Gallery Photon in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With the project I’m trying to document...
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I have a new website www.borutpeterlin.com
Ciao tutti, I have a new website, redesigned with new logo and everything. Tomato Košir, one of the best Slovenian graphic designers designed the logo and helped me with other elements. Yesterday I’ve...
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Preserved Dry Collodion Plate process
This weekend a colleague Jeroen de Wijs visited me. He is a collodion photographer from Holland with outstanding knowledge and experience in collodion photography. He was learning collodion photography...
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Individual topshit workshop
Benjamin saw my videos on youtube and decided to learn wet plate collodion process so he drove from Switzerland for an individual workshop with me. It was great three days. We were doing basic wet...
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Carbon Printing workshop at George Eastman House
huh, last week was busy so I need to catch up. Sunday I’ve returned from USA where at George Eastman House I took part of a workshop of Carbon Print process under mentorship of Mark Osterman and Nick...
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A photography project on fears and delights being a parent
. Dear topshit readers, I’m awfully proud on the following book I’ve made. I’ve joined an excellent workshop with Klavdij Sluban. Klavdij Sluban is an extraordinary photographer and won so many...
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Vintage studio backgrounds of Josip Pelikan, dated about 1930′s
Astrid asked me if I could take a picture of fantastic vintage studio backgrounds that were using Josip Pelikan, so after I got a permission from the museum I’m publishing them on my blog. On Flickr...
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Santa brought me… time for Carbon Print process!
As topshit readers of my blog know, in November I was in George Eastman House, taking a course on Carbon Print process under mentorship of Mark Osterman and Nick Brandreth. Almost two months passed and...
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Sunday is a good and dry collodion day
Today it was Sunday. It still is, but concerning the the speed of my writing it will take me two hours and it will be past midnight. Again… So where to start. Basically I’m using this free time that I...
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An update on my Great Depression project
. Do you remember my project Great Depression? I’ve start working on it in December 2012 (LINK) and I had exhibition in October 2013 (link) Yesterday I continued to work on the project. I was in meat...
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Video from skylight Studio Pelikan
Wet Plate Collodion portraiture in skylight Studio Pelikan by Borut Peterlin from culturaesmorbo on Vimeo. Markele Zid made this video about our daily life in Studio Pelikan. It’s a job, somebody’s got...
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