Shadow CATCHER
Jan 21, 2020
3 minutes
By Lance Nixon
SHANE BALKOWITSCH DIDN’T FORESEE THE WAY HISTORY WOULD COME circling back around when he constructed what is probably the country’s first new natural-light, wet-plate photography studio built in more than a century.
He began to figure it out when Ernie LaPointe came to pose for a portrait in September 2014.
For a photographer persevering in a cumbersome technique invented in 1851 that nevertheless creates lasting images of incredibly fine detail, the chance to do
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