Enchanting and Surreal Wet Plate Collodion Photography by Alex Timmermans
From portraits to surreal scenes that feel as if they were pulled out of some long-lost storybook, the wet plate collodion photography of Alex Timmermans is unlike any we’ve seen or featured before.
We saw this earlier in the week with the week when we featured the wet plate street photography of Jonathan Keys, and we see it again today with the wonderfully surreal work of self-taught Dutch photographer Alex Timmermans:
This behind the scenes photo shows Timmermans at work in the woods, photographing his daughter. A brief glimpse into the hour-long process of creating a single plate:
As you might imagine, given his chosen medium, Timmermans doesn’t really care for digital photography. Speaking of the transition from film to digital, he says, “everything became more predictable… too predictable.”
By comparison, wet plate collodion photography is the antithesis to ‘predictability.’ Little twists of fate, chemistry and even weather often lead to surprising results, and this element of serendipity delights Timmermans as much today as it did the first time he took a wet plate photograph.
To learn more about the man or look through the rest of his captivating collodion portfolio, head over to his website by clicking here.
About the author: Photographs by Alex Timmermans and used with permission
