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"Lost But Not Forgotten" is the result of a thirty year love affair between Freestyle
Photographic Advisory Board member Brent Wood, and the broken down, dilapidated
buildings that dot the various recesses of the American landscape. Forgoing digital
in favor of older traditional and alternative cameras and development processes,
Wood's distinctly analog approach marries itself perfectly to the vintage nature of his
subject matter. His images take the viewer back to a slower, more deliberate time
that existed before the rapid, impersonal atmosphere of the modern digital age.
"These buildings seem to speak to me as I am capturing their spirit," says Wood,
"who built the building, why did the owner leave, where are the owners now, what
was the building used for, why was it built in the middle of nowhere?" These questions
and more may be pondered upon by the audience as they view works done in
traditional silver gelatin, Van Dyke, cyanotype and split-toned cyanotype techniques.
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