A Portrait of Moretonhampstead

This project is a strikingly innovative photographic archive of the community of Moretonhampstead, an old market town in Devon, using the wet plate collodion (ambrotype) process. These portraits are of individuals who live or work in the Moretonhampstead area, focusing on the old families, farmers, shop owners and individuals, with the aim of memorialising the community by creating over one hundred wet plate collodion portraits, a ‘snapshot’ of this rural community at that time, 2015. Some images were taken on location and others in a studio in my kitchen. This project was funded by Arts Council England.