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
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
Four years ago...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Four years ago...
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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”.
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”.
October 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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”.
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”.
Good to be back with old friends today…
ArtHouse Jersey
ArtHouse Jersey
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Good to be back with old friends today…
ArtHouse Jersey
ArtHouse Jersey
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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
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
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
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
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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
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
“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
- Anaïs Nin
More alchemy experiments with Anaïs and Lillies
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
September 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
“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
- Anaïs Nin
More alchemy experiments with Anaïs and Lillies
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
‘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
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
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
‘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
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
"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
- 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
September 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"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
- 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
Alchemy Lillies (double exposure)
More experiments with this wonderful and magical process.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
3x4 Tintype
More experiments with this wonderful and magical process.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
3x4 Tintype
September 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Alchemy Lillies (double exposure)
More experiments with this wonderful and magical process.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
3x4 Tintype
More experiments with this wonderful and magical process.
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
3x4 Tintype
I’ve been haunted by a number of moments of late which have challenged my own gaze, of how I see what I photograph, coupled with Sally Mann’s clarion call to not keep taking the same picture over and over has taken me to a place of discomfort, and more importantly, growth (I hope).
Rupa
Rupa
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’ve been haunted by a number of moments of late which have challenged my own gaze, of how I see what I photograph, coupled with Sally Mann’s clarion call to not keep taking the same picture over and over has taken me to a place of discomfort, and more importantly, growth (I hope).
Rupa
Rupa
More Wet Plate Stiil-Life experiments
Dead Chrysanthemums in double exposures silver
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
Dead Chrysanthemums in double exposures silver
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
September 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
More Wet Plate Stiil-Life experiments
Dead Chrysanthemums in double exposures silver
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
Dead Chrysanthemums in double exposures silver
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
Still Life Experiments
Silver Stocks Double Exposure
1851 Wetplate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
Silver Stocks Double Exposure
1851 Wetplate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
September 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Still Life Experiments
Silver Stocks Double Exposure
1851 Wetplate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
Silver Stocks Double Exposure
1851 Wetplate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
And just like that the summer is over and they’re gone…
Caught them coming through the fog of the fix just before they sailed though.
H and Pinny
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
Caught them coming through the fog of the fix just before they sailed though.
H and Pinny
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
September 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
And just like that the summer is over and they’re gone…
Caught them coming through the fog of the fix just before they sailed though.
H and Pinny
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
Caught them coming through the fog of the fix just before they sailed though.
H and Pinny
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
8x10 Tintype
Dying Chrysanthemums in Silver, part 2
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
September 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Dying Chrysanthemums in Silver, part 2
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
1851 Wet Plate
1871 Dallmeyer 3b
5x7 Tintype
Sometimes it all comes together...
The Recks captured in alchemy during a moving collodion ceremonial moment yesterday in Market Square.
1851 Wet Plate
Helier 36com 1 4,5
Vageeswari 10x12
8x10 tintype
6 Mississippi second exposure.
The Recks captured in alchemy during a moving collodion ceremonial moment yesterday in Market Square.
1851 Wet Plate
Helier 36com 1 4,5
Vageeswari 10x12
8x10 tintype
6 Mississippi second exposure.
September 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sometimes it all comes together...
The Recks captured in alchemy during a moving collodion ceremonial moment yesterday in Market Square.
1851 Wet Plate
Helier 36com 1 4,5
Vageeswari 10x12
8x10 tintype
6 Mississippi second exposure.
The Recks captured in alchemy during a moving collodion ceremonial moment yesterday in Market Square.
1851 Wet Plate
Helier 36com 1 4,5
Vageeswari 10x12
8x10 tintype
6 Mississippi second exposure.