John Wagner

Studio Open By Appointment Only. Please Contact: blackshiptree@gmail.com John is a fine-art photographer and a widely published author of 26 books. His books include two volumes of poetry, a young-adult novel; a dramatic play; two books on furniture design and architectures, numerous non-fiction books on finance. His book of photography is called "FINDINGS: Wood, Cacti & Sand" (MORG Press, Mexico City). John shoots black-and-white photos on old-fashion “2.25” film (never digital), using an antique (1957) Hasselblad 500 C/M camera. He often fits his Hasselblad with a macro lens for close-ups of textures in nature. When John first received the camera from an antique dealer, he was surprised to find, in the original box, a personal letter from the CEO of Hasselblad to the original camera owner, welcoming her to the Hasselblad family. The Hasselblad CEO was named John Wagner. John has a darkroom in Santa Fe, NM, which he built himself. There he does all his own fine printing. He never alters an image, and always prints the negative as a full-frame image; he prints exactly what he’s shot, varying the image’s density only by how much light he delivers from the enlarger. He also makes all his own frames and cuts his own glass.