Our subscribers come from more than a dozen countries and include photographic conservators, museums, historical societies, photographic organizations and educational institutions including The National Gallery of Canada, National Archives of New Zealand, Harvard University, Ryerson Polytechnic University and George Eastman House.

Artists are also discovering how to use this method as a "new" way to make images, and collectors are learning about contemporary wet-plate photographers who currently make images in the fashion of 19th Century itinerates.

In the manner of the 19th Century photographic journals, each issue of The Collodion Journal includes at least one hand "tipped-in" print and rare line art. Collectors find the Market Place section refreshing because the advertisements are limited to pre-1900 photographic equipment and images. Many of our subscribers tell us that the journal has it's greatest value as a source directory for hard to find chemicals and information.

Here's what other publications are saying about us:


"The Ostermans are...repositories of arcane knowledge and keepers of the flame. Through lecturers, workshops and
their Collodion Journal...they heve helped hundreds of amateurs and artists decipher the chemical recipes of
old manuals and appreciate the inventiveness of photographic pioneers."

Lyle Rexer, The New York Times


"The Collodion Journal (is) a hit,...(it) has information on wet-plate photography past and present,
which is simply not available elsewhere...They tell and show how to do (the wet-plate art). No secrets."

New England Journal of Photographic History


"The Collodion Journal...provides information to the collecting, conservation,
and photographic communities that isn't available anywhere else. (It's) one
of the most unique of all publications in the photographic history field."

Stereo World, National Stereoscopic Association