Tag: Paul Whitehouse

Building an 8×10″ wet plate “Lockdown Camera”

Oct 16, 2021

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Paul Whitehouse

in Articles, Darkroom, Wet plate collodion

It must have been getting close to Christmas 2019 when I first started to sketch the rudimentary designs of what would become my first homemade wet plate camera. I’d previously built an Afghani Box Camera for my friend and fellow wet plate photographer, Simon Riddell, so I had some sense of how to go about…
Seasonal Reflections of an Analogue Photographer

Dec 25, 2020

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Paul Whitehouse

in Articles, Darkroom, Featured, Opinion, Wet plate collodion

“It’s Christmas Theo, it’s the time of miracles” Hans Gruber, Beloved Christmas Terrorist Christmas is a piece of family-orientated theatre, rich with idiosyncratic traditions that only exist within our own eccentric little bubbles, along with the shared, large scale infectious hysteria of a nation psyching itself up for some overly indulgent festive respite. The glittery…
Visualising the Unspeakable: Exploring Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with wet plate photography

Oct 18, 2020

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Paul Whitehouse

in Articles, Darkroom, Featured, Opinion, Wet plate collodion

Even when the camera is focused on a single subject, photographic portraiture rarely, if ever, speaks with just one voice. It is this multifaceted layering, be it intentional or otherwise, that generates intrigue and keeps us coming back for another look, drawn to some inexplicable detail that refuses to sit quietly on the page. Historical…