Presentation: Ghosts in the Glass: Exploring Dry Plate Photography in a World of Illusion

Name: Presentation: Ghosts in the Glass: Exploring Dry Plate Photography in a World of Illusion
Start: 2025-10-04T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Milwaukee Central Library (814 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee)

Schedule

Sat, 04 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Milwaukee Central Library (814 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee) | Milwaukee, WI

Please join me for my presentation at the Milwaukee Central Library as part of QWERTYFEST.
This event is FREE. Seating is First Come, First Serve
We will be in the Rotary Club Community Room on the 1st floor of the Central Library.

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
In a time when images can be endlessly manipulated, photographer Jessica Kaminski is turning back to one of photography’s most hands-on and historic processes: the dry plate. In this talk, she shares her journey through a week-long intensive workshop learning to coat and expose glass negatives—while also exploring photography’s early entanglement with illusion, scandal, and the occult. From spirit photographers to fairy hoaxes, she traces a legacy of deception that contrasts sharply with her own pursuit of slowness, presence, and truth in image-making today.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐐𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓?
QWERTYFEST is a 3-day festival for writers, artists, typewriter aficionados, history buffs, mechanical keyboard connoisseurs and anyone who wants to celebrate innovation. The weekend is a whirlwind of live music, presentations, workshops, literary cemetery tours, brunch and camaraderie.
To learn more about Qwertyfest or to see what other presentations are happening that day, please visit https://www.qwertyfest.com/event-list