ARTIST: Paige Whitcomb

STATEMENT: Paige Whitcomb creates photos using the traditional method of wet collodion photography with an authentic 19th century studio camera. This historic process allows for a single photo to be captured without any possibility of duplicating the image. Paige creates tintypes to capture a staged fictional world, literally. Using double exposure techniques she photographs genuine found objects from the 1800s to portray memories of a past generation. Paige’s intention is to have the observer question what century the image was taken, where, and why.