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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Finalist
‘Wet plate collodion was the pre-eminent photographic technology of the 1860s. The images exist as highlights of pure silver metal on a black background. The process is arcane, alchemical and potentially explosive. Fickle too, as a tiny deviation in the workflow may result in the complete absence of emulsion. Muni kindly sat for a portrait in my Pomona studio. We relinquished our control to the process, and it imposed its will upon us. In our flaws we find our greatest strength.’
Raoul Slater is a photographer from Pomona on the land of the Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi peoples on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. He has recently been working in the medium of wet plate collodion.
The NPPP is an annual prize for Australian photographers. The year’s most outstanding photographic portrait is awarded a $30,000 cash prize and photographic equipment valued at $20,000 courtesy of our Imaging Partner, Canon Australia.
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