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Ambrotype Portraits from the Digital Frontier (working title)

 
We live in a time where more people are using the digital frontier to entertain, escape and connect.  It used to be that the ambrotypist would travel the frontier in their wagons and photograph those living on the fringes of civilization.  Nearly 160 years later, I travel the new frontier of online communities, photographing those paving the way. While the inhabitants of these non-physical communities and games do not go there physically, they are often able to manipulate and control their online incarnation: creating an abject presence of themselves.  This project creates both a tangibility and history to the 'lives' of these inhabitants who, by design, do not know or have either.  The ambrotype images make a tangible manifestation of the intangible persona while simultaneously showing the death of that moment.
 
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Matt Cousland / Dragon Age Origins /The Tower of Ishal Eugenia Burton / Second Life / Steelhead

Solbrak  / World of Warcraft / Scryer's Tier

Matt the Knight / Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion / Chorrol
       
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Chris2 Gallacher / Second Life
"Burning Life" festival in 2009

 Muamer / Aion Online / Anair Ice Lake Dekka Raymaker / Second Life / Dekka & Pen's Minestrone at Push Rand Toxx / Second Life / Steelhead
       
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Annechen S. Lowey / Second Life / Consulate Boathouse, Caledon Kittiwickshire Jimmy Branagh / Second Life / Steelhead Port Tensai Hilra / Second Life / Steelhead, Port Harbor Commons Mrs. Xephronia Warbaum / Second Life / Steelhead
       
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Dracona Lisle / Second Life / Steelhead

 

 

  
       
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