Check these haunting photographs of Jacqueline Roberts from Spain, which she captured the technique called Wet plate photography. This technique invented in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer and Gustave Le Gray. Although the process required a portable darkroom, it combined desirable qualities of the calotype process (enabling an unlimited number of prints from a single negative) and the daguerreotype (creating a sharpness and clarity that could not be achieved with paper negatives). The technique quickly became really popular and was used for portraiture, landscape work, architectural, and other types of photography.

Jacqueline Roberts explain about her process:

“For me, wet plate photography is a fascinating process on so many levels,” Roberts told Film’s not Dead. “From preparing the chemistry, cutting the glass, flooding the plate, developing and fixing to finally holding in my hands a beautiful glass photograph. I love the ceremonial aspect of it, as much as the craft involved.” The self-taught artist often chooses kids as her subjects but for other reasons than the majority of photographers. “I disagree with the common perception that sees children as ‘cute-innocent- creatures’. I find this notion condescending and manipulative. What I love about them is their rawness, their fresh unawareness, their uncompromising ability to be as they are.”

You can find Jacqueline Roberts on the Web: Website, Facebook, Instagram

You can purchase her book Nebula from Amazon

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