Graduating with a visual art degree John Balean started his career as a photographic artist but transferred his skills to licensing other photographers works at TopFoto, one of the world’s largest privately owned photographic archives. He has been involved in several European projects and currently is on the board of BAPLA, PICSEL, CEPIC and Photoconsortium. As a photo historian, he specialises in press archives of the 20th Century but as a photographer he now concentrates his time on the 19th Century wet plate collodion process.
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