Work As Worship

HELL IS EMPTY AND ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE. Shakespeare wrote that over 600 years ago, and if you listen to the news, you’d believe it’s as true today as it was then. But I believe, if Hell is empty, Heaven is also empty and all the angels are here, too. We just have to look a little harder and turn off all the sound and fury to see them. For me, I saw them in Tanzania amongst the baobabs. It felt as if I was in a forest of ancient cathedrals. And for an all too brief moment, photography no longer was work for me. It was worship.

(And a massive hats off to my printer, Wojtek Wojdynski. These wet-plate collodions on glass exist only because of his mastery.)