Woman exposing old-school photo technique from old North Dakota schoolhouse
Kary Janousek is now one of a handful of photographers who operate collodion wet-plate studios in North Dakota. She is the newest of the lot and the only female. Her business, High Hat Portraiture, is based out of a classroom-turned-studio in an old schoolhouse in Mapleton, N.D.
11:00 am, Mar. 3, 2021
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Kary Janousek readies to take a view camera plate image in her studio space in Mapleton.
David Samson / The Forum
MAPLETON, N.D. — From the moment that wispy outline of her friend’s face emerged on the glass, Kary Janousek was hooked.