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185 - Tintypes, Roller Derby, and Rewriting Photography's Power Dynamics
Host Casey Fatchett talks with alternative process photographer Britt Bradley, known professionally as Nitrate Fox, about wet plate collodion photography, the history and politics baked into a 170-year-old medium, and Bradley's self-published photo book Jamnesia, which documents the roller derby community in tintype.
In this episode:
Why Bradley chose a non-gender-specific artist name — and how it changed their exhibition acceptance rate
Collodion's history as "a perpetual representation of the white male gaze," and how seating, standing, and exposure time shaped who was centered in…
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