WET PLATE COLLODION INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE COLLECTION

Too Long Exposure by Alex Timmermans

26cm x 26cm made on Dibond Aluminium A while ago I contacted Shane Balkowitsch who is hosting the Mask Series. I volunteered to make a plate also. For this series about 150 wet platers from all over the world are using a gas mask in their work. It took [...]
I Cannot Escape and I Cannot Forget by Jan Kratochvil

8″ x 10″ Ambrotype Why this composition: Originally I have been thinking about composition from the military environment, but when the mask arrived I changed my mind and refused to create a plate with a laying soldier in a still position somewhere in the field. This final plate [...]
Gas mask M10 on collodion

“Jan Kratochvíl did a quick test video for us all to enjoy, the video looks to me like it is right out of the 1922 film Nosferatu” – Shane Balkowitsch

Quick by Jonathan Keys

8″ x 10″ Ambrotype On receiving the mask for Shane’s project, I found myself focusing towards the glass eye pieces, staring through these, leading me to the darkness of this mask . Thinking a mask, a gas mask. To me this mask just said “cliche” Thousands of mask images ran [...]
Cry by Kate Horsley

Half plate Ambrotype I enthusiastically signed up for the mask project and looked forward to mask coming my way. But I wasn’t prepared for what an emotive object the mask would be. I initially thought of taking a self-portrait and strapped the mask on. There was another mask [...]
Molten Mask by John Brewer

Half plate Tintype ” My image of the molten mask grew out of imagining the mask in a post-apocalyptic environment, a nuclear war situation, in which the mask would melt off the face of the wearer. I had in mind photographs, films and texts of the Cold War era [...]

If Your Face Fits by Tony Richards

Whole plate tintype “This is a self portrait. It has a number of things going on but the main one is this… Its to do with self belief and confidence, or lack of, and how I believe we wear a multitude of masks in our life, in different environs and [...]
Below The Mask by Frank Adami

18cm x 24cm Tintype “My intention for making this plate, was to show the emotions of a person who wears the gasmask in an adversary ambience. There can be fear, rage or maybe desperation, normally hidden by the mask. For this I made a double exposure, first one with the [...]
The Making Of by Cliff Barnes

13cm x 18cm Ambrotype “ I’d changed job and town and due to that I wasn’t able to practice for a while now, but yesterday all came to play: the weather was OK enough, I had an assistant/model and time. So off we went… with the entire equipment heading to [...]