Greta Thunberg: capturing the voice of the 21st century using 150-year-old...
The call came in on the afternoon of Monday 7th October. Shane Balkowitsch would have little under 24 hours to plan a 15-minute wet plate photoshoot with Greta Thunberg at Standing Rock. Naturally, the first thing he did after getting off the phone was to start packing his studio up into the back of his truck — including his portable darkroom.
Not for legal use: Polaroid passport photos on wet plate collodion
Wet plate collodion doesn't spring to mind as either the most practical or in fact, legal approach to creating passport photographs but that didn't stop EMULSIVE interviewee #196 Markus Hofstaetter from giving it a shot.
Markus isn't a stranger
How to: An introduction to wet plate collodion
You might remember that we featured an interview with Robert Marsters some months ago.
