Joseph Kayne just returned from New Mexico and his tintype photo residency at Navajo owned Cody Sanderson Design. He sent us his photographs with this text.
Joseph Kayne photographs the American landscape, Heartland, and Native American archaeological sites with a 4×5 large format view camera. His latest projects, involve working in the rare antique process, known as Wet Plate Collodion Tintype photography, using an 8×10 old wooden camera and a brass Petzval lens from 1870. Joe’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and private collections across the country, including the Heard Museum, Couse-Sharp Historic Site-La Luz de Taos 2024 Gala Weekend, and the Museum of Natural History, and his tintype of Deb Haaland was shown on The Rachel Maddow Show. He is a Top 50 Finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2024. Joe’s clients include The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, CF Martin Guitar Co., and the U.S. Department of Energy. Joe has a rare collection of large format images of the tallgrass prairies and American barns. He was one of the first color photographers to portray the Anasazi archeological sites and dwellings as an art form, and he is well known for his barn images and large format nature photography. Joe was awarded 3 artist residencies by the U.S. National Park Service at the historic Navajo trading post, Hubbell Trading Post in the heart of Navajo Nation, and has had several artist residencies at Native American owned galleries and jewelry designers, collaborating with, and making free tintype portraits for, Native Americans
