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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 1d

“I intended to cover the situation from the standpoint of the underdog, the downtrodden…was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so.”
- Chris Steele-Perkins

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Chris Steele-Perkins obituary

Magnum photographer whose most striking work captured the challenges of life in Britain’s inner cities in the 1970s

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Morning Musings: Still-Life and its Pleasures

Through all my still-life plates this year I realise it isn’t life or how apparent it might be that is the focus of still-life, it’s the pleasures it contains. This, I’m beginning to think, is still-life’s point.

1851 Wet Plate
8x10 Tintype

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday Still-Life

Managed a wee plate yesterday of the Lillie’s in the studio. Those magical collodion marks always stir some thing deep in me.

1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
1942 Vageeswari 10x12
4x5 Tintype

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Jersey...

My favourite Man Ray quote?

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information”.

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 5d

Your work is a constant soul source🖤

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 6d

One of the most instinctive and tender alchemists there is.

The beautiful @deborahparkin.bsky.social

Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to have my work & words featured in @obscuracraft.bsky.social October issue. If you are interested or work with historical processes they are open for submissions. You can hear more about their work on @llfpodcast.bsky.social too.

A wet plate collodion portrait of a girl with peonies - the girl has her eyes closed and is behind the flowers emerging from the dark.

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 7d

Good to be back with old friends today…

ArtHouse Jersey

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 7d

Was thinking about Cezanne’s oil still life paintings when I took this.

Reminded me of my A level paper on the life of Cezanne and his contribution to Cubism. He would have been a teenager and in his early 20’s when wet plate was at its zenith.

Funny old world

1851 Wet Plate

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

noted!🙃

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, thank you Nancy - so kind as always. Hope your world is kind. Still remember so fondly connecting over that sumptuous work of yours.

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

🫶 much appreciated that guy over there...

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Alfie. Interesting that this was the first plate we made and Ash didn't feel it had caught some of her layers... we took two more and on the final one her heart sang (see and hear Sundays post 😜).

Funny old thing photography!

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

Absofuckinlutely mate!

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

I believe it was Edward Steichen who suggested that, "A portrait is not made in the camera, but on either side of it".

I have to say that the older I get the more this rings true, especially after last Saturday's magic with Ash Dawn Clarke.

8x10 Tintypes

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 8d

Beautifully beguiling work by @dianamatisz.bsky.social 🖤

Diana Matisz @dianamatisz.bsky.social · 9d

Notus. The south wind. Bringer of storms.
#photography #Canon #monochrome #photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 9d

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West
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What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

The girl in the middle demands our attention. She looks straight at the camera, wrapped tight in a trade blanket that conceals her body. Six white men in military and civilian garb crowd her space,…

lithub.com

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10d

“And the Day Came When the Risk to Remain Tight In a Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took to Blossom.”
- Anaïs Nin

More alchemy experiments with Anaïs and Lillies

1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10d

Ah, you got me there, made my eyes water a little. Thank you for your constant support and encouragement mate!

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10d

And to you brother. Always.

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 10d

‘It was as if they’d dipped themselves in magic waters’

How it felt when the most wonderful of happenings happened yesterday and I got to make collodion magic with the beautiful Ash

Down the rabbit hole we went into the Wonderland of Alchemy.

Level 5 stuff.

Thank you Ash

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my! this is wonderful!

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11d

He venerates “stylization, invention, poetry, and imagination to locate a deeper layer of truth, one that can access a distant echo of something that can illuminate us, far beyond the reach of fact.”

I’ve been a fan since the 70s so I’m in.

newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Werner Herzog Is Ready for the Post-Truth World

In his filmmaking, manipulation and a bit of deceit have always been essential to uncovering a deeper truth.

newrepublic.com

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 11d

Beautiful work from my pal @alfie.photography 👇🏼

Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 12d

Good morning. Up since early and already on location with the client. Shooting through til about 5 or 6pm today.

But, in the gaps, posting a few bits and pieces.

Couple of gritty in-camera double exposures from 2010/11.

Have a great day, whatever you’re doing.

Luv&peace
🙏🏻❤️

In-camera monochrome double exposure with a Nikon DSLR. Road markings mixed in with a street scene in Tokyo.

In-camera monochrome double exposure with a Nikon DSLR. Made on Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo, back in 2010/11.

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 11d

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect”.
- Anaïs Nin

Maybe that why I photograph, why I make these plates. Maybe.

Lillies rendered in silver.

1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype

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Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social · 12d

Alchemy Lillies (double exposure)

More experiments with this wonderful and magical process.

1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
3x4 Tintype

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