Biography

After gaining a solid technical background in photographic illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...

, Ryan explored photography as an art form at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his BFA in photography and sculpture in 1991. Images from his series "Airshow" are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and have been included in Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography

Museum of Contemporary Photography

The Museum of Contemporary Photography was founded in 1984 by Columbia College Chicago. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists...

 in Chicago. These images have also been published in Black & White Magazine and the Center for Photography at Woodstocks, Photography Quarterly.

Photography

Zoghlin works in many alternative process such as orotone

Orotone

An Orotone or gold tone is one of many types of photographic print which can be made from a negative. An orotone photograph is created by printing a positive on a glass plate precoated with a silver gelatin emulsion. Following exposure and development, the emulsion is coated with banana oil...

, kallitype

Kallitype

Kallitype is a process for making photographic prints.Patented in 1889 by W. W. J. Nicol, the Kallitype print is an iron-silver process. A chemical process similar to the Van dyke brown based on the use of a combination of ferric and silver salts. Many developing solutions can be used to give a...

, and cyanotype

Cyanotype

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print. The process was popular in engineering circles well into the 20th century. The simple and low-cost process enabled them to produce large-scale copies of their work, referred to as blueprints...

 etc. His orotones from the series "Aerotones" are produced on glass and backed with 23.5 karat gold powder. These images are considered examples of modern orotones by the Research on the Conservation of Photographs Project at the Getty Conservation Institute

Getty Conservation Institute

The Getty Conservation Institute , located in Los Angeles, California, is a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust. It is headquartered at the Getty Center but also has facilities at the Getty Villa, and commenced operation in 1985. The GCI is a private international research institution dedicated to...

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Sources

• Black & White Magazine. December 2003, Issue #28, Pages 118–121
• Photography Quarterly. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock NY, Issue #91, 2005 Pages 16–17
• Camera Arts. March/April 2007 Artist Showcase Page 12.

External links

• http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/zoghlin_ryan.php
• http://www.metergallery.com/viewCollection.asp?collectionID=2123009469
• http://www.cpw.org/Auction/2006/index.html
• http://www.bandwmag.com/backissues/index.html