How Recreating Early Daguerreotype Photographs Gave Us a Window to the Past

Abstract: The colonial context in which historic daguerreotypes were made affected their custodianship, use, and display †all of which resonated with the exploitative and damaging relationships of colonization.But the experience of photography in the studio was much more dynamic. This contemporary series is a conversation with the past. It is an effort to portray and emphasize the nature of early photography where images were made in collaboration, and it is an effort to consider how those negotiations get muddied, buried, and hidden in our archives.