ENTRY DESCRIPTION
"skin care"

this image took me and the model 10 hours to finish 10 ambrotypes until the snails finally got back onto the compost.

It is also my very first wetplate serie I used the flash for as the snails were just too quick! for steady lights. Imagine :)

I had this idea of placing snail houses on a person's arm...but this seemed a bit too boring so went to the nearby forest to find some bigger snails. I finally came home with three life specimen.

The model's arm got a rest to place her arm on it to make sure the image composition is steady. Everything worked fine, apart from the snails that never posed in the direction i needed to. One dropped because of the slime, another turned around in the opposite direction, another never came out. so the hours past .

After 10 hours the model left my place and i went to sleep with a happy heart. Dried , varnished and asphalted, the whole serie turned out quite beautiful.

It's never easy but always worth the hours to spend to finally have an amazing result which makes me more than happy.

35.5x16cm Collodion wetplate ambrotype (image on glass)
Shot on 150y old 11x14" Korona view camera

AUTHOR
Farid Laid is a autodidact Photographer who startet in his early years with analog photography. Since 2019 after he visited a wetplate workshop, his whole view of making images changed drastic and started to turn into more artistic work. More thoughts more planning and not just "making" images. As a light technician at the opera house in zurich he loves to setup the needed lights for his effects. Reflections, emotions, thoughts but also laughter should not be missed in his images.

Photography can make you happy !

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