Joel Anderson

I’m a Pennsylvania-based photographer working in classic film and darkroom techniques. I grew up on a farm in central Pennsylvania and moved to California after getting a degree in aerospace engineering. Unfortunately that’s also when I discovered I’d rather be a photographer than a rocket scienti…

I use three film cameras: a hand-built Phillips 8x16” ultra-large-format view camera, a 4x5” field view camera, and a medium-format Hasselblad. I work with only the available light and no distortion filters or digital altering. Images are printed by me in a traditional wet darkroom. Although I’m…

2014 International Print Competition, Royal Photographic Society, England 2013 Portraits Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado First Prize, Photography: Art of the State', State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2012 'Black & White Photography,' Photoplace Gallery, Middlebur…