Home is a place we imagine we can always return to. Anticipating is about those who left their homes, by choice or not, and never came back. Set into the old doors of a house soon to be demolished, faces seem to wait for the return of those who once lived there. The doors keep the memory of those who left; the portraits still hope for their return.
I made these images with the wet collodion process, on 50 × 50 cm glass plates, using a large-format wooden camera I built myself. Each plate is set into an old wooden door placed against a black background, so that the negative appears as a positive image, as in an ambrotype.
Technique: wet collodion on glass (ambrotype), gelatin silver print on wood
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