Tintype Portraits with Jolene Lupo

Saturday, April 15th

Please select one time slot, space is limited

10:30am – 12:00pm
11:30am – 1:00pm
12:30 – 2:00pm
1:30 – 3:00pm
2:30 – 4:00pm
 
SOLD OUT

The exhibition Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston highlights the work of these trailblazing female photographers, whom W.R. Coe engaged to document the Planting Fields Olmsted-designed gardens, buildings, and interiors in the 1920s. In the early 1900s before photographing estates and landscapes, Frances Benjamin Johnson captured tintype portraits and would offer them at events, like county fairs. To celebrate the exhibition, join us on April 15th for a guided tour of Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston, followed by a chance to get your own tintype portrait by Jolene Lupo.

Jolene Lupo is a New York City-based photographer specializing in the wet plate collodion process. Her work explores themes of death, memory, and identification. Lupo received her BFA in Photography, from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Largely informed by the years she spent managing Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Studio, her work is process-based with an emphasis on physicality and material. She has led numerous panel discussions on the relevance of analog photography in the digital age and hosted tintype portrait events across NYC and abroad. Currently, she works as a Senior Photographer at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner and teaches workshops in wet plate collodion at Penumbra Foundation. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Metro, and Caitlin Doughty’s Ask A Mortician video series.

Tickets are sold in 90-minute time slots and are comprised of six guests per session. The first 30 minutes will include a tour of the exhibition, and for the following 60 minutes guests will be invited to get their tintype portrait taken. Please note, the whole tintype portrait process takes about 60 minutes for completion. While guests wait for their portraits they can enjoy light refreshments, watch the process and/or explore the grounds of Planting Fields.

For more information or questions about the event please contact Katie Walsh, Community Engagement Manager at kwalsh@plantingfields.org or 516-922-8680.

 
This program was made possible through generous grant funding provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.