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The Source of All Our Secrets by Simon Harbord

Many artworks have seemingly pretentious titles, this is no different, but perhaps artists use titles to try to direct the viewer’s mind to find meaning where the meaning is hard to find. I’d like to think so. This photograph evolved meaning by having a title before the work was done, […]
Outcast by Casey Carlin

4.25″ x 5.5″ Black Glass Ambrotype
Held by Alastair Cook

4″ x 5″ Tintype

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 […]
Witness to a death by Tim Ingmire

Tim Ingmire 5×4 Tintypes As you may already be aware, the Mask Series stopped accepting new participants (at least temporarily) when the number of photographers taking part reached a whopping one-hundred and fifty. In the interests of fairness, however, the man behind the Mask, Shane Balkowitsch, then opened a list […]