New Mexico's Next Governor

 I found this marvelous image today on Wikipedia while researching Deb Haaland's life story for a post on my other blog.

A wet-plate collodion photograph of Haaland in 2019

Shane Balkowitsch (photographer)

Congresswoman Debra Haaland, “Crushed Turquoise”, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico’s 1st District, captured in the historic wet plate collodion process of pure silver on glass for “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective”. This plate will be indefinitely archived at the North Dakota Historical Society here in Bismarck at the Heritage Center. This image of Congresswoman Haaland was taken by Shane Balkowitsch on June 23rd, 2019 in his natural light studio in Bismarck, North Dakota. The original plate now resides in the North Dakota Historical Society archive at the Heritage Center in Bismarck, North Dakota. 8x10” black glass ambrotype, Carl Zeiss Tessar 300mm lens, f4.5, 9 seconds of exposure, natural light through north-facing windows and skylight.

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