1 1.Jacqueline Roberts is a Paris- born Spanish portraiture
photographer which uses an unusual for 21 century method. Her primary
photographic method is time-consuming wet plate collodion, used from the
early 1850 through to the late 1880s. She applied it to her book “Nebula”, a
series of portraits made on glass and metal plates. “Nebula” translates from
latin as “mist” and according to the artist this name reflects the idea of her book which represents the turmoil of growing up. Roberts uses long exposures so the images would have
a soft and hazy touch and will allow a viewer to detach from the environment “almost
as if suspended in time and space”.
2. Roberts is concerned that nowadays photographs
are losing their value as art. The world is full of images that are
meaningless. That’s why she uses this time-consuming, laborious method, in order to bring back the value of the image and make it precious again.
3. I was impressed by this artist’s photographs.
There is nothing excessive in it; black and white is perfect to make the face
of a portrait to stand out. Plus the technique that Roberts uses makes you
concentrate on the face of a model, nothing distracts you from it. Normally we are
used to see children as silly and smiley, but Roberts tells us a different story,
maybe showing that growing up and transitioning from one state to another is
not easy, therefore the children on the photographs are always serious, almost with
grownup’s mimic and gestures. This is a kind of pictures I would like to take one day.
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