Private historical-photography and optical-making tutorials
Explore early photographic processes in a private studio lesson
Scully & Osterman Studio
Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman offer privately arranged instruction in unusual historical photographic processes. Their actual teaching menu includes photographic-emulsion making for glass negatives, orotones and opaltypes, mechanical silhouette methods, and camera-obscura making. Select a particular process with the studio rather than expecting every technique in one visit.
Current location note / listed area: Rochester, New York studio; private instruction by arrangement
Confirm the selected process, prior experience, participant count, equipment, materials, chemical-handling roles, access, date and intended output. This is specialist instruction, not a wedding photo booth or guaranteed take-home object. Online help is a separate option. The elapsed sold-out 2026 overseas workshop establishes maintained teaching activity, not available private dates or US travel coverage; the unfinished Medicine Show page is not a bookable act.
Public-source research · 2026-10-30 · Not vendor-confirmed or independently vetted.
Original research sources
- https://www.collodion.org/tutorials-1
- https://www.collodion.org/bios
- https://www.collodion.org/scully-osterman
- https://www.collodion.org/advanced-sicily
Documented state connections
Geographic evidence is retained historical research, not current service availability.
- New York · based
The owned private-tutorial invitation expressly places classes at Scully & Osterman Studio in Rochester, New York. Its current biography identifies the same two artists teaching in their Rochester studio; overseas workshops and student residences are not additional US coverage.