Alina + McKenzie in blue
Added 2025-06-14 00:00:05 +0000 UTCI met McKenzie Eckels + Alina Lee within a couple months of each other after a period of low model shoot-type activity, and by the time most of this set was shot in Oct 2018 it was my 7th time photographing with each of them. Some of these images are from individual shoots from the previous 2 years but I'm especially proud of the ones where they are together.
Interpreting the images as cyanotypes didn't occur to me at the time, but immediately after this shoot I had to make 100 tape transfer negativess for something called Art-O-Mat and I got into the groove of making new negatives out of xeroxes and tape. One month later - anything I like compositionally as an image, I wanted to re-interpret in this very lo-fi analogue style with hand brushed chemistry and a 180-year old process. Comparing stuff shot digital and made into negatives vs. the previous cyanotype set I posted where everything was 4x5, I'm so much happier with this work; like some recent instax wi-fi printing I've been doing, it's all about having a wider variety of choices and camera placement. When you shoot 4x5, you're on a damn tripod and you have like 10 shots that take forever. Bah!
