France Scully Osterman graduated from La Salle University, Phila. in 1981. In 1990, she started learning the collodion process from Mark.

As a professional photographer and writer, France has worked freelance for several publications in Bucks County, Pennsylvania including The Morning Call and The Advance of Bucks County, in Newtown where she also served as a full time editor in 1994-97.

She presently manages Scully and Osterman from their studio in Rochester.

France received the Lorrie A. Hoffman Memorial Award at the Prallsville Mills Art Exhibition for her "Altar Stone" image and the Judge's Choice Award at Philips' Mill Photographic Exhibit for her relievo-ambrotype tryptich, "The Assumption."

 

In October 2002, France exhibited her series, Sleep, waxed salt prints from collodion negatives, at Howard Greenberg's Gallery 292. For more information go to the gallery Sleep page. She is continuing work on that series.

 

 

 

 

 


MARK OSTERMAN is a graduate of Kansas City Art Institute, 1977. From 1978 to 1999, Mark taught fine art photography and graphic arts at the George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

He is currently the Photographic Process Historian for the Advanced Residency Conservation Program at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.

Since 1987, Mark has avidly studied the wet-plate collodion process, doing primary research using original 19th century publications and equipment.

A resource for conservators, artists and photographers, he is an educator, and strongly believes in sharing acquired information.

Mark researches and teaches pre- and early photographic processes; including silhouette-making with a physionotrace, using the camera lucida, heliography, physautotypy, daguerreotypy, photogenic drawing, albumen-on-glass negatives, salted and albumen papers, wet and dry plate collodion processes, gelatin plates and silver-chloride printing out paper, plus the more common printing out papers. He is currently researching early color processes.

Mark is preparing an exhibit of ambrotypes for Howard Greenberg's new gallery in spring, 2004.

In 1991, before they were married, the Ostermans began showing and selling their images through galleries as "Scully and Osterman." Their work includes ambrotypes and paper prints from glass plate negatives.

In 1995, the couple began sharing their knowledge about the process by publishing The Collodion Journal and teaching workshops at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, NY. They were named guest scholars at George Eastman House and received their certificates in Photographic Conservation and Museum Studies in 1997-98.

They plan to further their research in 19th century photographic processes and continue publishing, giving workshops and tutorials and making images.

To contact them go to their contact information page.


 


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