5 photographs in 5 hours… Welcome to the world of wet plate photography.
Paul Chambers
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Time, memory, loss and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among them becomes the determinant - Sally Mann. Wetplate analog fella doing his best in a digital world. www.paulwchambers.com
Early stroll. The sky has taken delivery of a moon. Orange letters and numbers painted on the pavement. I cross the road earlier than I usually do. Two triangles of bread in the bus shelter. Maybe one day that metal butterfly attached to that wall will fly away.
‘Good photography isn’t about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.’ Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1992. Photo Peter Adams.
Just needed to drop in to tell you I heard a woman pronounce sci-fi as sky-fi.
Early stroll. The joy of walking through drizzle. Home made curtains making a home. I see a man waiting for the bus then I see him on the bus. A flowing cat. I am the verse, each gate is the chorus.
When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/t...
When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood (Published 2023)
An enigmatic photograph by America’s most famous landscape photographer led to a forensic hunt to identify exactly when and where it was taken.
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Remembering Graeme ‘Reframing Dementia’ DementiaJersey ArtHouseJersey 8x10 Tintype
Early stroll. Monday: Sunday’s firstborn. Fallen leaves as imaginary surreal ears. A passing truck silences my whistling. That FOR SALE sign has been SOLD. Double yellow lines lead to twin emerald cities.
#bingsphotos #photography #filmisnotdead #lomography #believeinfilm #35mm #blackandwhite 📸 Lomography Sprocket Rocket 🎞️ Agfa APX 400 #SprocketSaturday 'Sonthofen Housing Construction' A digitally edited version created with 'Pix'
Yorkshire Day Hangover (metaphor people!) A Whole Lotta Ros(ie) - apologies AC/DC - terrible quip. 3x4 Tintype
'These images tell a broader story of how Black Americans used photography to document their lives, define their public image, and preserve their histories across the late 19th and early 20th centuries.' Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography. petapixel.com/2026/07/31/t...
Historic Portraits Celebrate the Earliest African American Photographers
These daguerrotypes were taken by the earliest African American photographers.
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Early stroll. A temporary popup pink exhibition in the sky. Something growing in a paved-over garden. Headlights approach, rear lights recede. The big house in the distance across the valley. The minimalist narrative poetry of street names.
“These are going to live on as very important documents and also very wonderful photographs.” timesofsandiego.com/arts/2026/07...
'Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Braithwaite Story' shines light on photographer who documented Black expression
The documentary, screening at MOPA, part of the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, explores Kwame Braithwaite's long life and career.
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Happy Yorkshire Day! May your puddings be plentiful and rise in county glory!
Early stroll. Three small stones constructing a triangle. A bright red horizon. Two vivid ambulances rushing by. An empty chair in a colourful garden. A black cat sits in the road, taking a chance on its luck.
Notes on the Unseen: Photography’s Psychic Space brooklynrail.org/2026/07/spec...
Notes on the Unseen: Photography’s Psychic Space | The Brooklyn Rail
When we look at photographs, what are we looking for? I think that what draws us, often compulsively, to photography is an impulse not to see what’s there but to understand what isn’t.
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Early stroll. A dropped bottle top, bright red. Time measured in cats running. An enigmatic teaspoon. Ghost hooves canter around the betting shop. The sky-high sky.
A slow camera doesn't have to mean a stiff or staged picture; it just changes what kind of trust you need to build before you can use it. Killip built that trust first, for months at a time, and only then did he bring out the tripod. apple.news/AfMsohNhVSrm...
Chris Killip spent months living in deindustrialised communities in North-East England, photographing some of the most intimate images of 1970s and '80s Britain – using a huge camera that was never bu...
A new edition of his book North reveals how the wrong tool for candid photography became his greatest asset.
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Collodion memories with Fire Scans taken from four 8x10 ambrotypes
Early stroll. I’m framed in the door as I leave. The morning sky hints at possibilities for the afternoon sky. A hole dug in the pavement where I’ve intermittently smelled gas for decades. I bend to tame my left shoelace. An abandoned trampoline frame, unbouncy.
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Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last wk.Reggae Britannia, a fascinating documentary about how this wonderful rebel sound changed British music forever. youtu.be/ISL96z47-1o?...
Early stroll. Front doors: theme and variations. A blushing sunrise. Time strolls with me, not speeding up or slowing down. Tree branches like scribbled signatures. A ginger cat runs from under a parked car like it did yesterday.
Camera Obscura This custom-made camera obscura at The Photographers Gallery pays tribute to an optical phenomenon that led to the invention of the camera. A must if you're in London Town
'Powell is strongest when describing the details of track life, a seemingly simple pursuit given a dark edge by the high-stakes money changing hands and further complicated by the treatment of these graceful creatures who are bred and discarded for human amusement and profit.'
Benjamin Myers@benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · last wk.I reviewed Underdogs, the debut novel by @louisepowell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
David Hurn. Enjoying the beach. Porth Oer (Whistling Sands). Wales. 2004.
"You must have a silver penny to get into Fairyland. But silver pennies are hard to find." - Patti Smith www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/05/p...
The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti Smith on What It Means to Be an Artist
Every visionary, every person of greatness and originality, is a resounding yes to life — to the truth of their own experience, to the demanding restlessness of the creative spirit, to the be…
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Early stroll. Abstract patterns of fallen petals. A van seat wearing a hi-vis jacket. The stained glass window of the sky. Three geese fly over the bread shop. A half-full bottle of water in the bus shelter.
