In 2013, I saw a TV report about Daniel Samanns’s collodion wet plate photography. The collodion wet plate was developed in the mid-19th century by Frederick Scott Archer and Gustave Le Gray. This is a photographic plate that produces a photograph as an ambrotype.
A short time later, I bought an old stereo viewer made of bakelite at a flea market, along with old pictures that could be viewed with it.
Both the visual intensity of the wet plate and the flat three-dimensionality of stereoscopy, which had already influenced me in my diploma thesis, gave me the idea to make stereoscopic wet plate photographs.
I bought a Sputnik from 1970, which was produced by LOMO in the Soviet Union at the time and was large enough to mount a back produced by a 3D printer on it.
I then attended a workshop on wet plate photography in Berlin, where I photographed my first results with the prototype.
