Collodion

After a small break I decided to pick up my wet plate collodion practice. With the help of my hero René Smets (Collodion master and builder of gorgeous cameras) we made some new images in and around my atelier and home. Square collodion reflex camera. Réne has built this amazing camera from scratch Studio view

Rain study #1

  This summer I started making photograms of rainfall and sand. While the past month of June our rivers are flooding, the south is battling an enormous drought with severe fires.

Beautiful lab fuck-up

Ain, France, February 2016

Ice Watch

Artist Olafur Eliasson built this installation of a circle of icebergs which is installed at the Place du Pantheon during this week’s Climate Change Conference.  The idea of “Ice Watch” is twofold: the ice is arranged like a watch, or a clock face, to indicate the passing of time; and, in real time, observers will be able

Mont Blanc

The first two pages of the poem “Mont Blanc”  by Percy Shelley.

New Zealand, 2015

sauvage

  Ropato, Chambon-sur-Voueize, France, 2015

the heart vs the head

scan, invert, print, scan… repeat

Joseph, Lombok Sendang Gila, Lombok Kawah Ijen, Java, 2015

Inside Kawa Ijen

Film stills of the video ‘Inside Kawa Ijen’. A work in progress where images of the beauty of our natural world are juxtaposed with images of exploitation of the land and the people working on it. Kawa Ijen Caldera in Java, Indonesia