DOUG HANSON is a photographer specializing in antiquarian techniques including Wet Plate Collodion and various alternative printing methods. Wet Plate is an antique, completely handmade photo process dating to the 1850s.
Based near Chicago, Doug conducts workshops and shows work in local and international exhibits. Doug also offers selected commercial photographic services such as film development, reproduction/copy work, and documentation.
Solo Exhibitions
Time and Place - Side Street Studio Arts (Elgin, IL) - 2016
Portraits and Reflections - Asia Camera Museum (Penang, Malaysia) - March 2015
Silver Moments in Time - Side Street Studio Arts - 2014
Group Exhibitions
Art Night - August House Chicago - 2023
Year 10 - Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL - 2022
Contemporaries - Side Street Studio Arts - 2019
Dreams and Dispair - 317 Art Collective (Rockford, IL) - 2019
Dangerous Lullabies - Dole Mansion (Crystal Lake, IL) - 2019
Something Wicked - Side Street Studio Arts - 2018
Elgin Fringe Festival - Side Street Studio Arts - 2018
Tragedy - Wildrose Brewing Co., (Griffith, IN) - 2018
Strange Imaginations and Other Perplexing Wonders - Art Space, Oddball Art - 2018
Pure Imagination - Side Street Studio Arts - 2017
Orange - Side Street Studio Arts - 2017
No Filter - Swell Gallery (Dundee, IL) - 2017
Father - Side Street Studio Arts - 2017
Elgin Community College Faculty Show (Cyanotypes) - Elgin, IL - 2016
Exchange - Side Street Studio Arts (Nashville, TN) - 2016
Member Exhibition - Side Street Studio Arts - 2016
Something Wicked III - Side Street Studio Arts - 2015
Portraiture: Pictures in Photography - Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR) - 2015
the art of mwseq™ - Elgin Artspace Lofts (Elgin, IL) - 2015
Contemporary Portraits - Water Street Studios (Batavia, IL) - 2015
Member Exhibition - Elgin Photography Club (Elgin, IL) - 2015
EXCHANGE - 11th Monk3y Industries (Phoenix, AZ) - 2015
EXCHANGE - Side Street Studio Arts - 2015
Third Person - Paupers Art Guild (Arlington Heights, IL) - 2015
Workshops
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Photography: Digital, Analog & Darkroom - Side Street Studio Arts - 2017-2019
Private Corporate (Wet Plate, Pinhole, Cyanotype) - 2017 - present
Cyanotype - Side Street Studio Arts - 2017
Introduction to Wet Plate - Makers Circle (Mason, NC) - 2017
Pinhole Photography - Paupers Art Guild (Arlington Heights, IL) - 2016
Introduction to Wet Plate - Elgin Community College - 2015, 2016
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day workshop - 2015
Lectures
Black and White Photography
Riverwoods Nature Photographic Society - 2021
Elgin Area Camera Club - 2019
Introduction to Wet Plate
Elgin Area Camera Club - 2017
Arlington Heights Camera Club - 2017
Elgin Community College - 2015, 2016
Asia Camera Museum - 2015