Wissahikon Park on 8×10

This is my first body of work, made with an 8x10 camera and photographed in Wissahickon Valley Park for my junior project at Drexel. Printed in silver gelatin, it's the groundwork for the platinum printing I want to move toward, a project about learning the camera and making negatives worth printing.

I came to large format because I work slowly; even 4x5 felt too fast. I've long been told I photograph "from the neck up" and never understood what shooting intuitively truly meant until I started working with the 8×10. This has been an eye-opening project into a darkroom-filled future.