Fractured Portraits

These images are shot on a 150 year old camera and are part of a series of wet plate collodion portraits manipulated with old style, analog trick photography, without the use of Photoshop or computers. In these one-of-a-kind handcrafted, large format 5 x 7" wet plate collodion tintype portraits, artist Eric Lee Bowman explores double lives, dissociative identity, the pareidolia effect, prosopagnosia and "a dramatic messed up psychology" (Jason Andrew, Norte Maar, -curator). Bowman applies his signature "trick photography" technique to manipulate the portrait without the use of Photoshop or computers. "My grandfather, famous photographer Roy Pinney, taught me how" says Bowman "he faked lots of photos during this career, even that well known one of the archer fish!" About his recent analog images: "I am fascinated by apophenia and the mind's compulsion to find meaning. There is no meaning here."