ENTRY DESCRIPTION
CELLO, 2016
Positif wet plate collodion tintypes, unique pieces made with a large format camera 8x10 and a 19th century lens, 20’-30' exposure. 
This photographs is from a series of 23 other tintypes.
It is a tribute to the cello. 
The instrument remains stationary and the musician is working around it, showing his passion, his energy, his harmonies. 
We are invited to listen to music with our eyes.
Chemistries of wet collodion cause all kinds of accidents with which I play to evoke the waves of sound. 

AUTHOR
With a degree in History, Art History and Political Science from La Sorbonne university in Paris, Mj has been nevertheless a professional photographer since she was 17. As she isn't n her 20' since a very long time, it has been a lot a lot a lot of years exploring a lot of facettes of the job, from grand reportage to war photographer, politics, corporate or celebrity portraits.
When life became more serious and bitter, through numerous griefs of love ones in a short amount of time follow by a cupple of years of sickness, her photography became more mystical, now a medium for art and a way to run after what makes sense, now a quest for hidden poetry and spirituality, facing and seeking the weirdness outside classical representations that open the vision of life to a whole new level.
She turned to an artist whose work feverly pushes the boundaries of traditional photographic and printmaking practices.

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