Collodion

Leinonen uses 19th century collodion technique particularly as a tool for portraiture. The slow process and long exposure time challenge the person photographed to concentrate on holding still. As a result, learned mannerisms often fade and the image emphasizes the presence of the person portrait. Because of the slow process the photographing situation also becomes radically different to what we are used to in our digitalized era where cameras are everywhere, and the act of photographing becomes a performance per se.