Gusdugger Tintype Photographs

04/04/2019

We are excited about our upcoming residency at the Wiregrass Museum of Art and deeply thankful for the generosity the WMA and Alabama 200 have shared to support our work in documenting sites of former Native American habitation and removal across the Wiregrass region of south Alabama!

07/23/2018

"Bessemer Mounds" from our landscape series "Where You Come From is Gone" is currently on view at the Wiregrass Museum of Art's B18: Wiregrass Biennial through Sept. 29 in Dothan, Ala.

B18: WIREGRASS BIENNIAL

07/20/2018

After a long hiatus we’re back to making tintype portraits! Email us ([email protected]) or DM for rates and to schedule a sitting for tomorrow afternoon, July 21. We’ll be in the studio in downtown BHM from 1-5pm.

09/06/2017

We are so pleased to have our Alabama landscape project, Where You Come From is Gone, featured today on Booooooom.com -- https://www.booooooom.com/2017/09/06/where-you-come-from-is-gone-by-gusdugger-tintype-photographs/

08/10/2017

We are excited to be a part of Southern Makers at Sloss Furnace, this Sat/Sun Aug. 12-13, noon-5pm each day. We'll have our mobile darkroom and studio in place to make portraits on site. First come, first serve or send us a message to book a time in advance. Varnished 4x5" portraits are $75 with a high res digital scan, $65ea. for 2 or more.

08/01/2017

We are excited to be a part of Southern Makers this year at Sloss Furnace, Aug. 12-13, noon-5pm each day. We'll have our mobile darkroom and studio in place to make portraits on site. First come, first serve or send us a message to book a time in advance.

http://www.southernmakers.com

Southern Makers is a two-day event that celebrates the best in creativity and design with artists that live and work in the south. The event activities, workshops, storytelling, demonstrations and maker bazaar explore and center on taking southern traditions in architecture, food, fine art, fashion…

07/14/2017

We are very pleased to have our latest project, Where You Come From is Gone, featured on Saint-Lucy: https://saint-lucy.com/slider/gusdugger/

Saint Lucy is an online publication by Mark Alice Durant devoted to writing about photography and contemporary art.

07/06/2017

Through the spring we have journeyed more than 1,500 miles across 20 Alabama counties to locate, visit, and photograph sites of Native American habitation and removal for our latest project, “Where You Come From is Gone.” We are excited to share the work — get a sneak peek of our process with this film by Jason Wallis, featuring music by Wooden Wand.

And please join us tomorrow night – Friday, July 7, 6-8pm – for the opening of our exhibition at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment’s North Floor Gallery. The show runs through Aug. 25. We are also very excited to have work from the project selected for Huntsville Museum of Art's 2017 Red Clay Survey, also opening this weekend in Huntsville, that runs through October 1.

https://gusdugger.com/news/2017/7/5/where-you-come-from-is-gone-video

We are excited to share our newest body of work, Where You Come From is Gone, with this short film by our longtime friend Jason Wallis. Accompanying the film is the song Mallow T'ward the River, from Wooden Wand 's latest album, Clipper Ship.

06/30/2017

FOTOFILMIC17 ENTRANT QUOTE

"Unlike most contemporary images which privilege control, clarity, detail, and objectivity, we embrace the unpredictable variables in making a tintype, finding both meaning and metaphor through the medium’s inconsistencies and flaws”

Jared Ragland & Cary Norton, Gusdugger Tintype Photographs (Birmingham AL, USA), FOTOFILMIC17 SUMMER SHORTLIST Entrants

http://fotofilmic.com/submit/

02/13/2017

al.com lists having a Gusdugger tintype portrait made as one of the top alternative ways to spend Valentines in Alabama. Our studio at MAKEbhm will be open for sittings 7-11pm tomorrow night. We have a queue of reservations lining up, so get in touch to reserve a spot in advance by emailing [email protected]. Walk-ins are welcome, too - first come first serve.

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/02/valentines_day_events_in_alaba.html #13

Candy, roses and dinner reservations? All of these are time-honored way to celebrate Valentine's Day with the one you love. Some folks, however, are looking for alternative ways to spend the holiday on Feb. 14. Here are 17 events in Alabama that should help to sweeten your romantic agenda.