Biography
Bryan Hiott was born in Greenville, SC and currently lives in New York City. He received an MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons The New School for Design in 2007 and holds a BA in Philosophy from Wofford College. Bryan is an adjunct faculty member at Parsons, where teaches college-level students as well as high school students in the Pre-College Academy. His courses include Digital Photography and Video, Black and White Film Photography and Imaging with Photoshop. He is a member of the College Art Association.
Areas of Special Interest
- Art history, contemporary art, critical theory, photography as cultural practice, history of photography, documentary and landscape photography.
- Historic and alternative photographic processes: 19th century wet plate collodion for making tintypes, ambrotypes and glass negatives; albumen printing; pinhole photography.
Historic Process Workshops
- Bryan has studied wet plate collodion techniques in workshops with John Coffer at Camp Tintype in Dundee, NY and with Eric Taubman and Keliy Anderson-Staley at the Center for Alternative Photography in New York City.
Dallmeyer Rapid Rectilinear Lens (1891)
