Jody Ake creates portraits, nudes, still lifes and
landscape images using the wet collodion process,
an historic photographic technique which involves using
a large format camera, glass plates, and hand-mixing all of the necessary chemicals for each and every exposure.
Invented in 1851, the method entails coating a glass plate with collodion, sensitizing the plate with silver nitrate and exposing the plate while it is still wet. The end result are ambrotypes, appearing on glass in the form of a negative until backed by black velvet, thus rendering the positive.
Ake says this about this series:
“I believe the portrait discloses more about the subject than what is found on the surface. The subject, either willingly or subconsciously, shows us more then they intends. The camera can see more than the naked eye, moving past our persona and catching a glimpse of who we really are.”
Less a photobook than an academic thesis, this book explores the highly charged creative period experienced by while she lived in Italy.
Residents of quaint summer cottages in Austria agreed to be photographed in their tidy gardens by Italian photographer . What's unique about them is that they are clustered together in a tiny patch of urban oasis in downtown Vienna — a walled-in, fairytale community surrounded by concrete offices and industrial buildings.
(1820-1884) was the most important photographer of the Second Empire in France. He initiated a new way of seeing, and his students went on to pioneer styles of photography that seem startlingly modern 160 years later.
Land levels ... rising? By focusing on a strange natural phenomenon in Alaska, this beautiful and thoughtful series shows how nature always proves more complex than our simplified, politicized understandings of it.