Eric Antoine | French, 1974 -
Eric Antoine was born in 1974. At the age of 20 he left France for the first time to travel to New York. Shortly after arriving, he began photographing with his first camera - a Nikon. Antoine, a self-taught photographer, began to explore the possibilities of analog photography, traveling around the world and documenting his adventures and encounters.
After fifteen years of travel, he returned to the French countryside and found his new passion: wet plate collodion photography. Focusing his camera on nature and the simple life, Antoine chose to go back to the origins of photograph by using one of the earliest and purest techniques.
This series of ambrotypes show his love for bucolic and oneiric images. Without being too nostalgic, he photographs individuals contemplating nature and their own solitude. The Pictorialist aspect of these photographs, shot with nineteenth century lenses, reinforce a romantic and mysterious atmosphere.
Eric Antoine was born in 1974. At the age of 20 he left France for the first time to travel to New York. Shortly after arriving, he began photographing with his first camera - a Nikon. Antoine, a self-taught photographer, began to explore the possibilities of analog photography, traveling around the world and documenting his adventures and encounters.
After fifteen years of travel, he returned to the French countryside and found his new passion: wet plate collodion photography. Focusing his camera on nature and the simple life, Antoine chose to go back to the origins of photograph by using one of the earliest and purest techniques.
This series of ambrotypes show his love for bucolic and oneiric images. Without being too nostalgic, he photographs individuals contemplating nature and their own solitude. The Pictorialist aspect of these photographs, shot with nineteenth century lenses, reinforce a romantic and mysterious atmosphere.