Jessica Somers

 

August 20th- 'He's been reading it for years'

 

June 30th- 'Blank Fathoms'

 

July 22nd- Yellow August

 

July 9th- 'Deep Dark Cracked the Surfaces'

  

August 22nd- 'Days Thick with Mystery'

 

July 3rd- 'Reduced to Powder'

  

June 1st-'Coveted'

These tin types are from a series by Jessica Somers called 100 days photographs. We all know the pledge people make to take a photograph every day for a year or for the rest of their life, and then they make a blog about it and it is boring as bat shit. Well Somers did take that pledge in 2009, but the interesting thing is, she decided to do it using the tintype process. That got my attention!
All the photographs are self portraits that are representative of a creative process Somers was doing at the time (i think, there isn't too much info about it).
100 photographs is alot, and taking a tintype everyday is quite an ask as well, as some days they just dont work! ( see August 22nd above) but can also give you the most amazing results. These are some from the collection that took my eye. Iam really interested in the different colours produced in the different images and wonder if that is just the magic of the process, or if there was a toner or special step used to create the blues and greens and browns. Iam so drawn to blue and cream at the moment and want to turn everything that colour.
Anyway here is the link to her blog.