PHOTOGRAPHER USES 130-YEAR-OLD CAMERA TO CAPTURE PRESENT DAY ENGLAND

[mozart123]

At first, these remarkable photographs by Jonathan Keys appear to have been taken some time in the distant 1800s. But on closer inspection, the presense of cars, neon signs and spray-painted graffiti, reveal these pictures to be photos of present-day England.

To achieve this richly textured, retro aesthetic, Keys uses a 130-year-old Circa camera and a 1920’s lens, with a wet plate collodion process, a photographic technique developed by Frederick Scott Archer in the 1850s, to take the pictures. In a darkroom, Keys pours collodion onto one side of a glass plate, then dips it into silver nitrate making it sensitive to light. This is then loaded into his camera, with which he travels around Newcastle looking for suitable subjects and locations. One an image has been selected, Keys takes off the lens cap and exposes the plate, which is then developed.

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[gandydancer123]

asteeg

[jhorvzkie]

it looks like it was just a sketch.

[Tarkuz Toccata]

That's a bloody fine 1920’s lens!

 

[randymarsh]

nothing new. look up sally mann who is still using a century year old large format camera and glass plates for her art. she was once titled america's greatest photographer by times magazine

[Tarkuz Toccata]

nothing new. look up sally mann who is still using a century year old large format camera and glass plates for her art. she was once titled america's greatest photographer by times magazine

Creepy, dark and morbid... like Death Metal!

[randymarsh]

Creepy, dark and morbid... like Death Metal!

the kid is her daughter swimming in a pond which looks like a severed head. she's really great in combining life and death concepts into her photographs. and without photoshop!