… organized by curator John B. Ravenal, hung a grid of 18 ambrotypes—collodion wet-plate negatives set against dark backing or rendered directly on black glass, as Mann has done, so that they appear as positives—each focused on a view of her face. The last gallery contained a grid of 75 self-portraits in the same medium…

Inspired by Sally Mann’s work Ambrotypes, this has become an ongoing project that I’ve fallen in love with.

While the original collection was of self-portraits, I have decided to focus on photographing friends, family, and occasionally complete strangers. Due to financial limitations I had to work entirely with digital images, which lacks some of the uniqueness of the collodion process but allows me to honor the inspiring work of Sally Mann.