There is a new member in the CDags community. Claudio Santambrogio joins us from Italy and has a new gallery page of his most recent daguerreotypes. Welcome, Claudio!

A gallery page has been added for the talented Lukas Fritz, a 19 year old student from Munich, Germany. He has been making daguerreotypes for just a year with most of that time spent building the equipment (fuming boxes, mercury pot). Lukas is no stranger to demanding technical projects, as one of his websites shows (check his cocktail making machine!).

Rare finds in recent years of of caches early daguerreotypes caught the imagination of Imanol and the first images in his new cdags gallery tell a fictional story of a rediscovery of works from a French daguerreotypist’s time in Spain. The concept of rediscovery that Imanol relates is one that will strike a chord with many daguerreotypists, to find modern day inspiration in a 19th century process.

CDags.org is pleased to welcome Dafna Gazit, of Israel, to the site.  With 18 years of experience working with different photographic mediums, she has recently been learning the daguerreotype process through online resources such as this site.  She currently has 32 daguerreotypes on display in a solo show at the Alfred Gallery of contemporary art in Tel Aviv, Israel. The show will be up until September 28, 2012.

Our latest galleried artist is Raimondas Pocius a 21 year old photographer from Vilnius,
Lithuania. He has been making daguerreotypes for less than a year and has written a bachelor thesis about daguerreotype process.

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.

Joining the CDags community is Daniel Carrillo. Based in Seattle, WA, Daniel started off using the Becquerel process and has recently begun working with mercury. His blog documents his experiences with the medium, including moving up to shooting whole plates. Welcome, Daniel!

Welcome to our first galleried artist from China, Li Junyi, aka newone2010 from the dagforum. Starting his gallery are 9 mercurial 4×5 inch plates of his muse. Li is very appreciative of the supply of plates stock from dagforum members that have pointed his silver plater in the right direction. Li has an upcoming article in the next daguerreian society newsletter telling of his journey of becoming a daguerreotypist.