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The award-winning photographer shunning digital technology in order to produce evocative, Victorian-inspired photographs

18 May 2018

Advances in digital technology over the last decade .

They’re more affordable than ever and their ability to produce professional-quality images has delivered a big boost to photography’s popularity.

David Gillanders is who has spurned this modern technology in favour of a focus on techniques popular in the 1800s. The haunting images he produces evoke the style of a bygone era.

Alchemy And Art | Into It

This is how they developed photographs in the 1800s!

It was a love of boxing that first sparked David’s passion for photography.

Tired of being punched in the face, the then-13 year old picked up a camera and started taking black-and-white portrait photographs of the people in the gyms and clubs in which he used to train.

Years later, a friend gave David a small, black glass ambrotype photograph — a small, beautiful object with whose history he instantly connected.

David had no knowledge of how create ambrotypes, so he searched online to learn about the equipment he’d require and the production technique: .

Several stages in the process involve chemicals – some of which are considered dangerous – so there is plenty of potential for images to turn out poorly. David cherishes those that turn out well: “You’re left with a beautiful, hand-varnished, hand-made photographic image that will last for over 100 years.”

He explains that the process of wet collodian photography has taken over his life and describes the unique and powerful images he helps create as “alchemy and art, combined”.

A wet photographic emulsion is applied onto glass or black metal and then exposed to light.

Before the wet emulsion dries, the photograph needs to be developed, fixed and varnished in order to make the image permanent.

David said he needs to be respectful of the chemistry that was used for the collodian process back in the 1800s, due to some of the chemicals being potentially harmful — such as the potassium cyanide used as a fixer.