A film by Ian Ruhter.

Ian Ruhter makes images, but not the same way other photographers do. Adapting the 19th century process of wet plate collodion, he creates dramatic, large-format single images "with silver and light," in a gigantic camera fashioned from an old delivery van. Ian invested every penny of his life savings for the opportunity to radically reconfigure the art of photography. "Life grants us a series of opportunities and those opportunities come with a price," he says. "If you'd been searching your whole life for something you love, and you found it, what would you be willing to sacrifice?"

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  • mbj

    As luck would have it, one week after KarmaTube posted "Silver & Light", Ian was the speaker at the April installment of the Creative Mornings Vancouver breakfast lecture series, which I attend regularly. He spoke in a more deeply revealing way about his journey than could be captured in this short film – as a photographer, as a storyteller, as a person. If you found Silver & Light tantalizing, I highly recommend watching Ian’s short talk, which is now up on the Creative Mornings Vancouver’s vimeo page. Because luck has it.

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  • Follow Ian's photographic journey as he "tells our stories", one wet plate image at a time.
  • Richard Avedon wrote, “All photographs are accurate. None is the truth.” Consider how still images tell stories, real and make-believe.
  • Take a photograph that tells a story about your life at this moment.

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