Paul Chambers
@paulwchambers1970.bsky.social
Time, memory, loss and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among them becomes the determinant - Sally Mann.
Wetplate analog fella doing his best in a digital world.
www.paulwchambers.com
Wetplate analog fella doing his best in a digital world.
www.paulwchambers.com
Pinned
And so, a story that will take a year to complete begins...
#chemicalphotography
#wetplatecollodionphotography
#chemicalphotography
#wetplatecollodionphotography
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Despite its negative image in the media, Jaywick has a thriving, caring soul, of which local people are proud. David Shaw has been documenting the community
By David J Shaw www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
By David J Shaw www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘I hate the word deprived’: Jaywick, actually a happy place in Essex – photo essay
Despite its negative image in the media, Jaywick has a thriving, caring soul, of which local people are proud. David Shaw has been documenting the community
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November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Despite its negative image in the media, Jaywick has a thriving, caring soul, of which local people are proud. David Shaw has been documenting the community
By David J Shaw www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
By David J Shaw www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
An extraordinary man who has helped me stay well for a long time now, a day at at time...
John
John
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
An extraordinary man who has helped me stay well for a long time now, a day at at time...
John
John
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Photography and the black arts movement, 1955–1985
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Photography and the black arts movement, 1955–1985
21 Sep 2025 — 11 Jan 2026 at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, United States
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November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Photography and the black arts movement, 1955–1985
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Four years ago...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Four years ago...
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Robin de Puy's distinctive take on the American photographic road trip.
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rob...
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Robin de Puy's distinctive take on the American photographic road trip
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November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Robin de Puy's distinctive take on the American photographic road trip.
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rob...
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rob...
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Exhibit in Concord tells asylum seeker’s story through photography and poetry
www.theconcordinsider.com/2025/11/04/a...
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Concord church hosts asylum seeker photography exhibit - The Concord Insider
A photography exhibit documenting the detention of asylum seeker "Antony," a poet and artist, will be on display at the South Congregational Church in Concord from Nov. 8-29, with an opening reception...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Exhibit in Concord tells asylum seeker’s story through photography and poetry
www.theconcordinsider.com/2025/11/04/a...
www.theconcordinsider.com/2025/11/04/a...
This, just this….
A few more tea toned Cyanotypes that I made a while back - the beginnings of a new project that was put on hold but I’m hoping to start again soon.
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This, just this….
I haven’t printed that picture for nearly 30 years now. I don’t want to see it coming up in the dark room. I even feel guilty that these pictures – I have about 70,000 negatives – are in the house.
- Don McCullin
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- Don McCullin
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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October 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I haven’t printed that picture for nearly 30 years now. I don’t want to see it coming up in the dark room. I even feel guilty that these pictures – I have about 70,000 negatives – are in the house.
- Don McCullin
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- Don McCullin
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
“Losing my hair was devastating. Alopecia makes you feel broken and unfeminine; it chips away at your identity until you no longer see yourself. Paul has captured so much more than a face in these images. The strong, beautiful woman you see is someone I had forgotten existed.”
- Martine
- Martine
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
“Losing my hair was devastating. Alopecia makes you feel broken and unfeminine; it chips away at your identity until you no longer see yourself. Paul has captured so much more than a face in these images. The strong, beautiful woman you see is someone I had forgotten existed.”
- Martine
- Martine
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As Australia’s first Indigenous press photographer, Mervyn Bishop told many others’ stories. Now the yarn is about him
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As Australia’s first Indigenous press photographer, Mervyn Bishop told many others’ stories. Now the yarn is about him
Alongside an exhibition at the State Library of NSW, a biography by Bishop’s longtime friend Tim Dobbyn explores the life of the man behind the camera
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October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
As Australia’s first Indigenous press photographer, Mervyn Bishop told many others’ stories. Now the yarn is about him
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hypnotic work as always from @yourmoonliness.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hypnotic work as always from @yourmoonliness.bsky.social
Collodion memories with Zineb Slaimi
8x10 Ambrotype
8x10 Ambrotype
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Collodion memories with Zineb Slaimi
8x10 Ambrotype
8x10 Ambrotype
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Catalog launch! Great photography! Free books! Tomorrow! Watch all about it! www.29news.com/2025/10/24/v...
‘Visions of Progress’ catalog showcases African American portraits in central Virginia’s history
Holsinger Studio Portrait Project is launching its ‘Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift’ catalog.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Catalog launch! Great photography! Free books! Tomorrow! Watch all about it! www.29news.com/2025/10/24/v...
Silver Blueberries.
Someone last week (and for the life of me I can’t remember who) posted a wet plate image of some blueberries. So taken with it I thought I’d take my own. Whoever it was, thank you and my apologies for getting old and forgetful.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
4x5 Tintype
Someone last week (and for the life of me I can’t remember who) posted a wet plate image of some blueberries. So taken with it I thought I’d take my own. Whoever it was, thank you and my apologies for getting old and forgetful.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
4x5 Tintype
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Silver Blueberries.
Someone last week (and for the life of me I can’t remember who) posted a wet plate image of some blueberries. So taken with it I thought I’d take my own. Whoever it was, thank you and my apologies for getting old and forgetful.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
4x5 Tintype
Someone last week (and for the life of me I can’t remember who) posted a wet plate image of some blueberries. So taken with it I thought I’d take my own. Whoever it was, thank you and my apologies for getting old and forgetful.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
4x5 Tintype
I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
- Carrie Mae Weems
Accra, Ghana, 2001.
Smacked of Colonialism if I'm honest, the building, the tattered discarded hymn books.
Makes me look hard in the mirror now as to what I was doing there.
#ilfordfp4
- Carrie Mae Weems
Accra, Ghana, 2001.
Smacked of Colonialism if I'm honest, the building, the tattered discarded hymn books.
Makes me look hard in the mirror now as to what I was doing there.
#ilfordfp4
October 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
- Carrie Mae Weems
Accra, Ghana, 2001.
Smacked of Colonialism if I'm honest, the building, the tattered discarded hymn books.
Makes me look hard in the mirror now as to what I was doing there.
#ilfordfp4
- Carrie Mae Weems
Accra, Ghana, 2001.
Smacked of Colonialism if I'm honest, the building, the tattered discarded hymn books.
Makes me look hard in the mirror now as to what I was doing there.
#ilfordfp4
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“It’s so critical that Jerusalem is Jerusalem in the film. It’s not somewhere else. These places are real, they exist,” she says. “We do feel this can all be taken away, it’s being taken away.”
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“It’s so critical that Jerusalem is Jerusalem in the film. It’s not somewhere else. These places are real, they exist,” she says. “We do feel this can all be taken away, it’s being taken away.”
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Remembering who helped get me where I am and today especially this gentleman.
Thank you Graham Jackson for seeing with more than your eyes and the opportunity you gave me.
Graham took pictures in the same studio I am now lucky enough to call my creative home for 59 years before me.
Thank you x
Thank you Graham Jackson for seeing with more than your eyes and the opportunity you gave me.
Graham took pictures in the same studio I am now lucky enough to call my creative home for 59 years before me.
Thank you x
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Remembering who helped get me where I am and today especially this gentleman.
Thank you Graham Jackson for seeing with more than your eyes and the opportunity you gave me.
Graham took pictures in the same studio I am now lucky enough to call my creative home for 59 years before me.
Thank you x
Thank you Graham Jackson for seeing with more than your eyes and the opportunity you gave me.
Graham took pictures in the same studio I am now lucky enough to call my creative home for 59 years before me.
Thank you x
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W. Eugene Smith,
The Magnum photographer made his last photo essay about industrial mercury poisoning in the Japanese city of Minamata, helping to bring justice and visibility to the victims.
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The Magnum photographer made his last photo essay about industrial mercury poisoning in the Japanese city of Minamata, helping to bring justice and visibility to the victims.
www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...
Minamata • W. Eugene Smith • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
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October 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
W. Eugene Smith,
The Magnum photographer made his last photo essay about industrial mercury poisoning in the Japanese city of Minamata, helping to bring justice and visibility to the victims.
www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...
The Magnum photographer made his last photo essay about industrial mercury poisoning in the Japanese city of Minamata, helping to bring justice and visibility to the victims.
www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...
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The cooler, elder sibling of the selfie turns 100: Celebrating the centenary of the photobooth www.itsnicethat.com/features/str...
The cooler, elder sibling of the selfie turns 100: Celebrating the centenary of the photobooth
A new exhibition at The Photographers Gallery in collaboration with Autofoto pulls back the curtain on the magical history of the machine, tracing its first rise to fame all the way to its new found r...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The cooler, elder sibling of the selfie turns 100: Celebrating the centenary of the photobooth www.itsnicethat.com/features/str...
And so, a story that will take a year to complete begins...
#chemicalphotography
#wetplatecollodionphotography
#chemicalphotography
#wetplatecollodionphotography
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
And so, a story that will take a year to complete begins...
#chemicalphotography
#wetplatecollodionphotography
#chemicalphotography
#wetplatecollodionphotography
Collodion sketches.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas A. Edison
1851 Wet Plate
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas A. Edison
1851 Wet Plate
October 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Collodion sketches.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas A. Edison
1851 Wet Plate
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas A. Edison
1851 Wet Plate
“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
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- Chris Steele-Perkins
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Chris Steele-Perkins obituary
Magnum photographer whose most striking work captured the challenges of life in Britain’s inner cities in the 1970s
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October 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“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
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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
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
October 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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
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
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
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
October 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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
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