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RAW Talk 025: Ian Ruhter and his Truck Camera

FroKnowsPhoto Photography Podcasts

Jared Polin

Visual Arts, Arts

4.4831 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

RAW Talk host Jared Polin (FroKnowsPhoto.com) discusses wet plate photography with an up-and-coming legend in that corner of the industry, Ian Ruhter. You can submit your questions for future episodes of RAW Talk to podcast@froknowsphoto.com. For more information about Jared and the show, visit FroKnowsPhoto.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, Fro Nation, and welcome to another episode of Frodo's Photo Raw Talk, and this week we have on an interesting character by the name of Ian Router.

0:13.8

He is a guy who goes around, and you may have seen the videos, he's got a blue truck, and he made that blue truck into a camera that uses, that uses

0:24.0

a wet plate process to make photographs. Now this is a wet plate process that was being used

0:30.2

in the 1850s. He's resurrected it for now and makes big ass prints using this wet process

0:36.8

made out of this truck.

0:38.8

So if you haven't seen the videos, they're over on the website,

0:42.0

fronosephoto.com slash podcast.

0:44.3

Find this podcast.

0:45.3

You can click the link below if you are on YouTube.

0:47.9

If you are not on YouTube, just go to fronosephoto.com slash podcast,

0:52.5

and you will find this is episode 25, I believe, which is pretty good,

0:57.1

25 weeks of it.

0:58.5

It's how amazing that stuff travels and goes quick.

1:02.2

But this is a really good conversation about what inspired Ian, how he went about making this,

1:08.6

and just taking a chance and a risk and and creating something

1:11.7

that wasn't there before that is really in my opinion setting setting up his project for many

1:18.4

many years of being successful because it's so unique and it's so different and he put himself

1:23.9

out there and he and he used the power of the internet to make it happen. And honestly, you guys can do the same thing.

1:29.9

You have an idea.

1:31.0

You can beat the crap out of it.

1:32.3

You can make it happen.

1:33.6

You can do it.

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