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DAY 185 | PORTRAITS |
Wet Collodion
NOIR, POP BAND
During my years as a young portrait photographer, I was always looking to challenge myself artistically, compositionally, and technically. After I received the commission to shoot an up-and-coming pop duo, called Noir, I decided to shoot a modern band with old technology, using a method that was almost as old as photography itself.
Matthew Brady is a well-known American photographer from the mid-19th century (see page 69), who used the wet-collodion method of making negatives in the field, quite literally, as I then did myself. Using a small tent, chemicals, and mixing trays to coat the negatives, ...
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