RELAMPAGO

Omar Lopez is an artist who has kitted out a motorbike as a travelling darkroom which he is using for his new project "Relampago", Lopez will travel around the Los Angeles area creating fictionalised interactions with strangers, posing as members of their families. In his kickstarter campaign video Lopez talks about his work, the ideas behind the project and the wet plate process which he will employ to create the images.

If you would like to see the full campaign visit his kickstarter page here

The American dream

New video from Ian Ruhter. Check out his website here

Robert Szabo

Photographer Robert Szabo uses the Wet Plate Collodion process to shoot civil war era portraits.
He has shot covers for National Geographic magazine and also photographed the 2006 Jack Daniels calendar.
Roberts work has been exhibited all across America creating a window back into the past for all of us to peer through.

See more of his work here

Robert Szabo

Robert Szabo

Silver and Light

Once ever now and again you'll see something that makes you step back and completely re evaluate everything that you do. This is one of those moments.
Ian Ruhter took his life savings and turned a van into a giant camera/darkroom and has begun travelling the United States shooting wet plate collodion images. When you see the part in the video where Ian throws a plate that hasn't worked in frustration you think he's over reacting. But then when you find out that each time he makes a plate it costs him $500 whether it comes out or not you completely sympathise.
The first time I saw Ians work was on the Vans dvd A Lucid Dream which if you haven't seen it before i've added it to the bottom of this post.

Enjoy