Shane Balkowitsch

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shane Balkowitsch
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Jan 24, 1969(1969-01-24)
Age	55
Birthplace	Bismarck
Country	United States
Birth City	North Dakota
Horoscope	Capricorn

Shane Balkowitsch Biography

Shane Balkowitsch is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on January 24, 1969 in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States. Shane Balkowitsch (born January 24 1969) is an American photographer working on wet plates in Bismarck, North Dakota. Balkowitsch was given the name “Maa’ishda tehxixi Agu’agshi” (“Shadow Catcher”) by Calvin Grinnell of the Hidatsa-Mandan-Arikara Nation on October 28, 2018. Balkowitsch’s subject matter for photography is the human state. Since 2012, he’s photographed more than 3500 people, which includes famous people and historical people. Balkowitsch is a self-taught photographer.

An art performance that took place on the 27th of August, 2016 the Persecution of the Complete Strangers an expression of a contemporary event that is that is influenced by images from the past to express visually the ongoing of xenophobia and the resulting crimes to ward off perceived adversaries. The artworks are influenced to William Mortensen. The exhibition was created by Balkowitsch, directed, as well as captured by Balkowitsch and is dedicated in memory of Hande Kader, a Turkish transgender woman whose body was discovered brutally mutilated, raped and burned on an abandoned road in Zekeriyakoy market on the 12th of August the 12th of August, the 12th of August. The exhibit is part of the worldwide protests and outrages against the discrimination, hatred and fear-based phobia of transgender persons.

In 2016 Balkowitsch set out to create an homage to the famous 1887 New York photo by Jacob Riis called the “Bandits Roost.” The objective was to get the look and feel in the present day using the historic collodion process with his models wearing very non-historical clothing. The recreation project took place in East Alley near 423 E Broadway Ave in Bismarck, North Dakota on June 11. About 100 individuals volunteered to assist in the project volunteering hey, wood, props, costumes, and as actors for the image. The final glass plate, titled, “Murderer’s Gulch” is being curated by the Historical Society of North Dakota in their permanent archive.

Northern Plains Native Americans Series is an ongoing wet plate project inspired by the works of 19th Century wet plate photographers Mathew Brady, Edward S. Curtis, and Orlando Scott Goff. The first wet plate in the series is “Eternal Field,” a 2014 wet plate photograph of Ernie Lapointe, the Great Grandson of Sitting Bull. The goal of the series is to capture one-thousand 8×10″ black glass ambrotypes of Native American communities and individuals. On November 3, 2017, the Bismarck Art Galleries Association hosted the reception of Balkowitsch’s photograph series, “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective.” In 2019 Balkowitsch published “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Wet Plate Perspective,” the first volume of a multi-volume set that includes photographs from this series. On June 23, 2019 U.S. Rep. Debra Haaland, one of the first Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress, appeared as guest speaker at the photographer’s book signing event in Bismarck.

In 2012, Balkowitsch began to study the process of wet-plate photography after having read a book about the subject written by Tintype photographer John Coffer. Inexperienced with photography Balkowitsch played around with the method and captured his first photograph that worked in the same year. Since then, he’s produced more than 2,000 plates, and his work has been published in many publications. He conducts talks at North Dakota with the use of the portable darkroom.

Shane Balkowitsch Net Worth

Shane Balkowitsch is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shane Balkowitsch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The Mask Series was started by Balkowitsch in 2012, after he took an extremely simple collodion picture of an antique Czech Gas mask M10, as well as the wilting flowers. The artist referred to the image as “The The Last Flower’. The purpose of this series is to increase awareness of the ancient wet-plate technique as a form of art. This will enable artists who usually do not get a opportunity to show their work to be part of collaboration with artists from all over the globe. When an artist is able to take on the task of creating a unique work, a gas-mask is provided to them. The artist creates an image collodion using wet plates in any size or style that they prefer. The Series is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017.

Balkowitsch utilizes the Italian manufactured Alessandro Gibellini 8×10″ camera that folds up in his studio. He employs Carl Zeiss Tessar 360mm and 300mm lens. Since 2012, studio sessions require 4500 watts continuous illumination. Outdoor sessions are a lot brighter and the sun is boosted by using reflectors. In the year 2018 Balkowitsch inaugurated a modern photography space situated in Bismarck, North Dakota where natural light is used exclusively in the studio.

On August 15, 2016, Balkowitsch travelled to Cannon Ball, ND, to capture images of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. The pipeline is to run less than one mile from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation of North Dakota and South Dakota. One of only a few photographers allowed at the scene of the protest, Balkowitsch captured images of the protesting encampment. The protest included many people Balkowitsch met during work on a photography project for the Historical Society of North Dakota, Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective. The 2017 documentary film Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock by director Josh Fox features a wet plate by Balkowitsch of Floris White Bull who also appears in the film. The 2018 documentary film Peacekeeper also includes and credits wet plate images taken by Balkowitch during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. In 2019 Balkowitschs’ work No Spiritual Surrender was awarded Best Photograph by the North Dakota Human Rights Art Festival.

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In February 2020 a seven-foot mural of the work Standing For Us All by Balkowitsch was going to be displayed on the side of a bakery business in Bismarck, North Dakota. A Bismark TV station reported on the planned mural and threats of vandalism and boycotts from the community followed. The mural Liberty Trudges Through Injustice by Balkowitsch and on display in Bismark since the Spring of 2019 was vandalized on February 13, 2020. Standing For Us All is an image showing Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg looking off into the distance taken by Balkowitsch during Thunberg’s visit to Standing Rock Indian Reservation in October 2019. After plans to display the mural were cancelled in Bismarck, a former Fargo, North Dakota city commissioner spearheaded plans to bring the mural to the eastern North Dakota city. The mural of Thunberg will go on permanent display in downtown Fargo in March 2020.

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