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Jan C. Schlegel
Nale (18), Suri, Ethiopia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary

2009

About the Item

"Essence" A portrait of a young woman of the Suri tribe in Ethiopia. Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board, signed and numbered Also available in: 50 x 60 cm / 20 x 24 inch 104 x 125 cm / 41 x 49 inch The black and white photographs from Jan C. Schlegel are taken with a 4x5 field camera (Ebony SV45 Ti) on traditional film (Kodak Tmax 400). The Negatives are developed in Kodak D76 Developer 1+1 dilution. To enhance shadow detail and the appearance of sharpness, each Negative is sandwiched with a traditionally made unsharp mask. Highlight masks are used to increase highlight details in most of his prints. Nothing is digitally edited, and the pictures are enlarged on fiber base photographic paper (Fomabrom Variant 111). Afterwards each photographic print is partly toned (own mixture) in order to give each picture its special inner dynamics and depth. Often this process takes several hours and turns out differently with each print. This way each print is unique. To finish the process, each picture is Gold toned which guarantees its maximum life and enhances the depth in the shadows. The pictures are mounted on 1 mm aluminium boards. Jan C. Schlegel was born in 1965 in the Black Forest of Germany. He discovered his passion for photography at the age of 14 with in the scope of a Photo course at school. For his first own camera, the reflex camera Minolta XG9, the 14 year-old saved long. As winner of a AGFA photo competition with focus on portraits, Schlegel took part in a seminar by the photographer Walter Schels in the Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. Under Walter Schel’s influence Jan C. Schlegel began to ascertain his fervor for black-and-white portraits. Toni Schneiders, a distant neighbor of Schlegel, became the second important mentor for the young photographer. After a two and a half year long apprenticeship at Lake Bodensee Schlegel was a professionally trained photographer by the age of 18. Schlegel works for the University of the Nations. He teaches courses in photography and takes students through Africa and Asia, mentoring them as they discover their own way of seeing.
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