To the uninitiated, the picture he paints sounds a bit like a mad scientist hard at work at his bizarre concoctions.
Working with metal salts, ether and alcohol, watching images appear like magic in a cloud of mercury vapours, all while working in isolation in a room, shut off from the rest of the world? Applying a coat of gold chloride on a silver-clad plate? Or coating salt prints with raw beeswax and lavender oil?
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