BIOGRAPHY

Achim Boers is a Dutch photographer who divides his time between Sydney and Madrid. With a lifelong dedication to photography, he has moved from film to digital and back to film, now specialising in 19th-century processes such as collodion, daguerreotype, cyanotype, and colour carbon printing.

Trained in applied physics and business administration, Boers combines technical precision with artistic curiosity. He often works with vintage technology, incorporating early digital cameras and computers into his practice, and occasionally uses artificial intelligence to extend his creative process.

His work alternates between early digital techniques and analogue processes, finding inspiration in the manual craft that underpins photographic image-making. Many of his projects explore historical subjects that resonate with the present, using photography as a way to connect time, process, and meaning.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• Transiting. Photographs in a Global World
  Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain PHotoESPAÑA 2024
• Todas las imágenes desaparecerán
  Galería Nueva Atocha, Madrid, Spain
  PHotoESPAÑA Festival Off 2025
• Tangible
  INTO ARTS Studio + Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Head On Photo Festival 2025

WORKSHOPS

At my Madrid studio and in Sydney, I not only teach workshops on historical and alternative techniques but also continue to take part in them myself, learning from experienced practitioners and refining my own process.

• Wet Plate Collodion Workshop
  Adrian Cook,
  Leichhardt, Sydney, August 2020
• Wet Plate Collodion and Carbon Printing
  Borut Peterlin,
  Straža, Slovenia, February 2022
• Natural Light, Studio & Advanced Techniques
  Lunar Studio, Peter Coulson,
  Alexandria, Sydney, March 2023
• Daguerreotype Workshop
  Gold Street Studios, Jerry Spagnoli,
  Victoria, Australia, May 2023
• Colour Carbon Transfer Printing Workshop
  The Wet Print, Calvin Grier,
  Valencia, Spain, June 2023
• Portrait Workshop
  Estela de Castro,
  Madrid, February 2024