MFA Indiana State University
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Susan Bryant is a Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University where she has taught photography for the past 35 years. Her personal work includes gelatin silver prints, hand-colored silver prints, digital photographs, and most recently, the wet-plate collodion process. Her work has been exhibited widely across the United States in solo and juried exhibitions. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship and is represented by The Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. “For the past six years, I have been exploring the wet-plate collodion process. I am especially interested in the kind of alchemy that occurs as this 19th-century photographic process is integrated with 21st-century digital technology. One of the many reasons I am drawn to the collodion process is that it requires me to slow down and to pay attention. I’m able to experience the stillness required by the extended exposure time, the silence in the darkroom while the magical alchemy takes place and the anticipation of the singular, mysterious image that results.” |