Cdags.org is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Penumbra Foundation in NYC, in the form of an annual exhibit and symposium. Entitled “Image Object” the juried exhibit will showcase the forefront of contemporary daguerreotypy with the aim of propelling the genre forward in the art world.

The inaugural exhibit (IO-1) will be held March/April 2013 around the time of the AIPAD show and in the gallery spaces of the Center for Alternative Photography on East 30th street in NYC (part of the Penumbra foundation and pictured below). Entries will initially be received by email for selection and the closing date will in December 2012. More details on the exhibit and symposium to follow, but our wish would be for contributing Daguerreotypists to be thinking ahead now about submissions. Note for the inaugural exhibit: submitted plates must have been produced within the past two years (future exhibits will accept plates made within the year prior to the exhibition).

After a hiatus of many years Walter Johnson has been inspired to get back into practising the process, 3 new plates added to his gallery chart his progress. Welcome back Mr Johnson!

There are now 50 individual artist pages on the galleries page with more artists represented in the collectors’ gallery and 74 artists listed in the link list. At this time we would like to remind all- if your making daguerreotypes, or have done in the past we would like you to have a gallery page here on cdags.org. Its free, all you have to do is email us scans of your plates, with some info about yourself and doing the process. Also if you already have a gallery page please do keep it updated by emailing us images of your plates, it helps to enliven the community and chart the progress of the genre.

Our latest gallery addition, Andrius is a 24 year old photography student from Lithuania in his last year of studies. He has found the process a complex and challenging medium – “on the one hand it’s looks simple and on the other hand it is difficult to reach a good results..” Trial, error and perseverance has helped overcome the lack of instruction in his native language and a lack of any practioners there. A year into the process he now has like many of us “the bug”.

A new gallery has been added for Máté Bakody. Based in Hungary, he began working with the Becquerel process this past March.

New to Dominique’s gallery is his latest portrait study.