Michael Shindler

It took me awhile to find this guy but I saw him awhile back and was blown away by his portraits. He spent six years learning a cumbersome photographic process invented in the 1850s called Wet-Plate Collodion process that relies on metal plates to print photographs. Here is a link to what that is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process. The way he uses light and the way the image burns on the metal gives you something that digital photography can’t. He is writes this on his website  “these photographs are a commitment to time. Unlike any other portrait process, the ego and body seem to melt away, leaving an imprint of the soul in silver on the plate—eternal still silver.” I picked a few of my favorites to show you.