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SurfLand: 06.07.12 #4 Lone Surfer / 8" x 10" unique tintype. Ditch Plains
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SurfLand: 09.08.24 #4 Len / 14" x 17" unique tintype. Radars, Camp Hero

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Joni Sternbach Unique Tintypes

Artist in Residence: March 2011 The Art Park/Atlantic in Byron Bay, Australia. Into the Ether: Wet Plate Collodion Workshop: June, 2011 in conjunction with Luz Gallery, British Columbia. Into the Ether: Master Class in Wet Plate Collodion: October 22nd and 23rd, 2011 at Houston Center for Photography...more about Joni Sternbach

JONI STERNBACH: SurfLand

 Surfers: 10.02.08 #5 Hannah, unique tintype, Malibu
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 Surfers: 09.02.12 #8 Lakey, unique tintype, Rincon
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 Surfers: 10.02.17 #5 Chris and Dan, unique tintype, Refugio
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Surfers: 16.11.09 # Turtle Cove , unique tintype, Turtle Cove
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"I have a special fondness for Joni Sternbach's unique tintype images. Having lived in *Montauk for over 15 years, many of Sternbach's photographs were taken just down the cliff's from us at 'Turtle Cove' and 'Ditch Plains', and I recognize some of the locals in her book SurfLand. But it's the beauty and expertise of her wet-plate technique that really sets Sternbach's work apart from the rest of us."

"Working with a large-format camera, photographer Joni Sternbach concentrates on locations that are close to or directly on the water. In an era of rapid-fire digital snapshots, Sternbach employs the wet-plate collodion process and the distinctive appearance of her finished works echoes nineteenth-century traditions of anthropological photography. The wet-plate technique informs her careful compositions while producing intimate portraits imbued with spontaneity and the raw quality of the process reveals the dignity in her subjects. In SurfLand, photographer and subject overlap on the periphery of two powerful elements: the land and the sea. The singular, primitive act of surfing on the water is eclipsed by the social and negotiated state of human interaction on the shore. Sternbach's surfers are persistent elements in a shifting natural scene, acting as a bridge between the sea as an unbridled force of nature and the shore line, a place of leisure and cultural phenomena." –Flak Photo's March Weekend Series

AIPAD with Rick Wester Fine Art
April 4 through 7, 2013
Park Avenue Armory

ICP Travel Workshop Summer 2013
Into The Ether and on the Road, Wet Plate Workshop
Please contact ICP for further details 

The Book: SurfLand | Photographs by Joni Sternbach

JONI STERNBACH WEBSITE

* Priscilla Rattazzi's Vintage Photograph of Matthew Avedon and me on the 'beach' in *Montauk for Italian Per Lui Magazine