1st place
gold star award
Marcelo Troche
canada 
title
Insectypos
it's a ongoing project to hopefully be publish or have a travelling exhibition to show how beautiful is our world when we take the time to see.
the color print are very large but the original wetplate are from 5x7 to 11x14 inch.
Canada where he and his family settled. He’s now spending his time between Montréal and Mérida, Yucatan in Mexico where he has his own little photography sanctuary.
Marcelo was recruited by one of the best photographic lab as the black and white laboratory right after completing his photography DEC at the CEGEP DU VIEUX MONTRÉAL where he developed a great interest for black and white. His creativty and talent leaded him to pause from the lab and become an advertising and editorial photographer, transiting from film to digital photography, without never losing his passion for lab and black and white.
In 2015, fascinated by tintype, he went studying with the tintype guru, M. John Coffer in Dundee, NY and started to develop and master his own tintype technic while continuing his career in advertising.
Two years ago, a cerebral vasculitis brutally hit Marcelo. After long hospitalization, many treatment attempts and long convalescence, Marcelo had to mourn his professional career and dedicated and devoted his life to a more artistique and slow photography.
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entry description
shoot in studio on 5x7 ,8x10 and 11x14 camera using macro technique on wetplate collodion.it's a ongoing project to hopefully be publish or have a travelling exhibition to show how beautiful is our world when we take the time to see.
the color print are very large but the original wetplate are from 5x7 to 11x14 inch.
about the photographer
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1971, Marcelo lived in Madrid and Grenoble to finally land in Montréal,Canada where he and his family settled. He’s now spending his time between Montréal and Mérida, Yucatan in Mexico where he has his own little photography sanctuary.
Marcelo was recruited by one of the best photographic lab as the black and white laboratory right after completing his photography DEC at the CEGEP DU VIEUX MONTRÉAL where he developed a great interest for black and white. His creativty and talent leaded him to pause from the lab and become an advertising and editorial photographer, transiting from film to digital photography, without never losing his passion for lab and black and white.
In 2015, fascinated by tintype, he went studying with the tintype guru, M. John Coffer in Dundee, NY and started to develop and master his own tintype technic while continuing his career in advertising.
Two years ago, a cerebral vasculitis brutally hit Marcelo. After long hospitalization, many treatment attempts and long convalescence, Marcelo had to mourn his professional career and dedicated and devoted his life to a more artistique and slow photography.
back to gallery
