Handmade Photographs from the Ozarks
When I say my prints are “ammonio-nitrate of silver salt prints,” I’m not just dressing up a basic salt print with fancy words.
I’m using a very specific 1840s variant of Talbot’s salted paper process, built on a silver–ammonia complex that people like Alfred Swaine Taylor, Talbot, and the Hill & Adamson circle actually used.
The single-bath “double-iodide” iodizing method, as described by William Holland Furlong and read aloud by John Adamson on April 3, 1843, made calotypes more reliable and repeatable. That stability opened the door for the Adamsons (and Hill & Adamson) to work at scale, and it changed everything for the calotypists in 1843.
I didn’t plan for Bending Toward Silence to mark the beginning of this series. It came from a place of necessity, not inspiration. On that particular day, I needed to do something with the weight I was carrying. Grief has a way of filling the room, whether you speak of it or not.
Pictorial Whispers is a deeply personal series of handmade salt prints from calotype paper negatives, created as a way to process the grief of losing my daughter, Abby. Each image explores the quiet emotional terrain of resilience, transformation, and connection through the delicate life cycle of flowers.
Pictorial Whispers is a deeply personal series of handmade salt prints from calotype paper negatives, created as a way to process the grief of losing my daughter, Abby. Each image explores the quiet emotional terrain of resilience, transformation, and connection through the delicate life cycle of flowers.
Each work in Pictorial Whispers is a handmade calotype, created as part of my journey through grief, memory, and healing. These images explore the emotional weight of impermanence through the quiet life of flowers.
Pictorial Whispers is a deeply personal fine art collection of handmade calotype paper negatives created in the wake of losing my daughter. Through this work, I’ve found a quiet, grounding way to process grief, using a process as slow and imperfect as mourning itself. These are not photographs. They are physical manifestations of emotion, made entirely by hand using a process first practiced in the 1830s.
Pictorial Whispers is a deeply personal fine art collection of handmade calotype paper negatives created in the wake of losing my daughter. Through this work, I’ve found a quiet, grounding way to process grief, using a process as slow and imperfect as mourning itself. These are not photographs. They are physical manifestations of emotion, made entirely by hand using a process first practiced in the 1830s.
Pictorial Whispers is a deeply personal fine art collection of handmade calotype paper negatives created in the wake of losing my daughter. Through this work, I’ve found a quiet, grounding way to process grief, using a process as slow and imperfect as mourning itself. These are not photographs. They are physical manifestations of emotion, made entirely by hand using a process first practiced in the 1830s.
Pictorial Whispers is a deeply personal fine art collection of handmade calotype paper negatives created in the wake of losing my daughter. Through this work, I’ve found a quiet, grounding way to process grief, using a process as slow and imperfect as mourning itself. These are not photographs. They are physical manifestations of emotion, made entirely by hand using a process first practiced in the 1830s.