According to Dutch photographer Alex Timmermans, working on the wet plate process made photography inspiring again. In 2012, he started with a new series called Storytelling. He produces fine art photographs filled with strange and surreal elements that suggest a variety of interesting narratives. A series of carefully composed images are delightfully whimsical and often provocative in their narrative style. Alex Timmermans spends hours designing and making the needed props, searching for the right locations, waiting for the best light; just to make that single image part of his series: Storytelling.
His goal is to create photographs the same way they were shot more than 150 years ago. No digital cameras, no Photoshop but pure photography. His series presents pictures as movies made up of a single image. All images were shot by using a simple wooden camera, antique brass petzval lenses, a huge amount of patience and with one of the most beautiful photographic processes called collodion photography, also known as wet plate photography.
Fotoistanbul
September 30 to October 22, 2017
Istanbul, Turkey
