Binoculars- A series of tintypes
From the home of Kenny and Connie Waranius
Brunswick Rd
Old Shasta
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Archaeology from a Climate Emergency
In 2018 a tornado of fire, bigger than six football fields, swept through the Shasta district of Northern California. The Carr Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed six people within two hours.
In his process of making portraits of families whose homes had been obliterated I asked them to give me an item that had been retrieved from the ashes, and marked by fire.
I wanted to find a new way to respond to these objects and began a dialogue with Jonathan Pierredon, who uses the old tintype process, dating back to the 1860s, to document the contemporary world. This brings a unique quality–a sense that these items could be the relics of a collapsed civilisation, seared by history, representing an archaeology of climate change.
Binoculars tintype
From the home of Kenny and Connie Waranius
Brunswick Rd
Old Shasta
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Camera tintype
From the home of Kenny and Connie Waranius
Brunswick Rd
Old Shasta
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Roller skate tintype
From the home of Eva & David Spliethof
Laurie Ann Lane
Redding
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Leaf ornament tintype
From the home of Patti & Joe Furnari
Brunswick Drive
Old Shasta
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Melted wine bottle
From the home of Mark & Victoria Rendes
Swasey Rd
Redding
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Book pages tinype
From the home of Robert and Marcia McKenzie
Scenic Drive
Redding
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Art book tintype
From the home of Robert and Marcia McKenzie
Scenic Drive
Redding
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Closed book tintype
From the home of Robert and Marcia McKenzie
Scenic Drive
Redding
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Bottle tintype
From the home of Patti & Joe Furnari
Brunswick Drive
Old Shasta
California
September 2018
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Picture frame tintype
From the home of Carl and Amy Smith
Nelson Lane
Paradise
California
June 2019
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Kitchen knives tintype
From the home of Nikki Havel
Sawmill Road
Paradise
California
June 2019
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Knife, fork and spoon tintype
From the home of Nikki Havel
Sawmill Road
Paradise
California
June 2019
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Forks and spoons tintype
From the home of Nikki Havel
Sawmill Road
Paradise
California
June 2019
All works © Jonathan Pierredon and Gideon Mendel
Tintype photographer Jonathan Pierredon at work in his studio in Arles, making one of the Burnt Memory tintypes.