Please join the Arundel Camera Club at 7pm on March 6th in person at the Severna Park Baptist Church or on FaceBook Live for a program by Quinn Jacobson titled “Sun Mountain”.

Mr. Quinn Jacobson is finishing his new book, “In the Shadow of Sun Mountain: The Psychology of Othering and the Origins of Evil” and hopes to publish it very soon. The presentation will be on the photography (wet collodion/dry collodion / and RA-4 color) he made for this work in Colorado. If you’re interested, you can read more about it here and here. This project is a poignant reflection on the historical and psychological dimensions of land ownership, colonization, and the human experience of mortality.

Quinn Jacobson is primarily recognized for playing a significant role in reviving the Wet Plate Collodion photographic process in Europe. Quinn traveled around Eastern and Western Europe for five years (2006–2011), evangelizing and teaching the Wet Collodion process. He taught hundreds of individuals the process, from Glasgow to Barcelona and from Paris to Budapest.

Photography was a part of Quinn’s life from an early age. Both his mother and father were avid photographers. And both accomplished in their own right. 35mm still film, Polaroid film, and 8mm movie film were typical in the Jacobson house. Every event was documented. Photography was vital to his family.

He began his career as a photographer in the United States military in 1982. In 1993, he received a Bachelor of Integrated Studies degree (B.I.S.) in Photography, Visual Art, and Communication from Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA. In 2007, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art, (MFAIA) with an emphasis on 19th-century photography from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, USA.

The turn of the century (2000) changed Quinn’s photographic career. After searching for several years for a way to connect to his work and have a deeper understanding of it, he discovered the Wet Plate Collodion process.