My good friend Brian told me he had something special he thought I would like. He wasn’t kidding! He had received this view camera kit from a client about 25 years ago and hadn’t used it much. He knew I was into view cameras and he thought I…
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Making portraits with a vintage process is a deliberate and slow choice. Image creation is measured in minutes per image, not images per second. Working with this slow method allows me to take time with my subject: time to visualize, connect, and see more. Photographing with a large…
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My shut-in selfie… Say that ten times fast. Balancing the Deardorff on the selfie stick was a bit of a trick. Definitely a historical image. The beard is now gone and probably will never come back. The photograph is a self-portrait taken with…
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This image is from a series using an 8×10 large-format view camera and paper negative. This process dates back to 1835 to Talbot’s Salt Print. I’m using a more modern version of the process. Brian had to sit very very still and he did receive a tan…
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