Portrait of Ellen

I just returned from Peter's Valley Craft Center near the Delaware Gap region of New Jersey where I participated in a great 4-day daguerreotype workshop taught by Jason Motamedi.
A pleasant surprise was that Ellen Sigunick who had participated with me in last year's wetplate workshop with Michael Mazzeo at PVCC returned to take the dag workshop.

I learned last year that Ellen had not only done some very intense photodocumentary and humanitarean work with Kenyan street children, but she also frequents detainment centers in the US where refugees are held for extended periods of time. Visits with the refugees in the facility are permitted only through glass booths with no tactile contact. She talked about trying to receive permission to photograph the refugees behind the glass using wetplate and that just resonated with me. An ambrotypist imaging on glass through glass.

Well, it turns out there is an abandoned greenhouse at Peter's Valley ...