Brown Film Photo

 In this day and age, photographs are disposable. Anyone nowadays has a camera, whether it’s in the form of a terrifying brick with countless buttons and heavy glass in front of it, or a skinny slate that fits in their pocket. Photographs are everywhere and everyone believes they have the best method. There isn’t necessarily a problem with this, but as humans evolve in their medium, they realize that their work becomes as disposable as the medium itself. That’s why we shoot analog and practice alternative processes, more specifically the wet plate process.

We shoot wet plates because there is no second shot at them. It takes an immense amount of determination and discipline to create a masterpiece in just one shot, and we do exactly that. Sure, we can shoot digital, but there’s a genuine human connection you’ve never before felt prior to holding a permanent, metallic version of that. You can’t let go of something that isn’t mindless, yet to us, it’s magic every time.

We take man-hours, materials, chemicals into consideration all because we know there’s a genuine difference in the outcome. We produce work that’s not a result of instant gratification. It’s simply not part of this disposable era.