Visual Essays
The Alchemy of Time: The Chemical Portrait and the Wet Plate Collodion Process
In an era where a portrait is rendered by a silicon sensor in a fraction of a millisecond, the concept of a photograph as a physical, crafted object has become almost alien. We tap screens; we swipe through an endless, frictionless ocean of human faces, consuming them at a velocity that renders them entirely disposable.… Continue reading The Alchemy of Time: The Chemical Portrait and the Wet Plate Collodion Process