Shellie Hanley, KO AHAU ( I AM ) (PEOPLE 2022)

My first WETPLATE Portrait of a friend. This is for my next Visual Sound Project which is set in the 1800’s, in a time when Maori lived in Villages and Pa’s. I decided to learn this technique so that I could authentically bring in the feeling of what it was like to sit for WETPLATE portraits back then and also reveal the energy of Maori at that time through this image.

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