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3 June 2015

Professional photographer Matt Alberts has hit Seattle to begin a portrait project documenting avid skateboarders, cyclists and other Lifers dedicated to their passion. Alberts, though, is doing it with his own passion: wet-plate photography.

He has just released his first video update of the project, which you can follow in real time on Instagram or Facebook:

He plans to continue down the coast from Seattle to Portland to San Francisco and then finally to Los Angeles, meeting with Lifers along the way. His mission? To capture the passion that lies within each and every one of us and transform that appetite for adrenaline into art.

Wet plate photography, he believes, is the perfect medium for revealing the essence of these Lifers. A few samples of his work:

The series will feature Jamie Weller, Chet Childress, Al Partanen, Jim Thiebaud, Tommy Guerrero, Damon Thorley, Steve Berra, Eric Koston, Tony Hawk and many more. Next week he'll be in Portland shooting bikers and skateboarders.

At the end of the trip, Alberts' one-of-a-kind images will be exhibited in San Francisco.

Wet Collodion Photography Arts Project -- The Seasons Collection

Today, professional photographer Matt Alberts released the first video recap from the Sun chapter of The Seasons Collection, a photography arts initiative highlighting those who have dedicated their lives to their passions, aka Lifers. The video highlights all that happened this past week in Seattle as Matt took wet plate photography portraits of various professional skateboarders and documented the adventure.

Matt's life-long mission is to capture the passion that lies within each and every one of us and transform that appetite for adrenaline into art. Wet plate photography is the perfect medium for revealing the essence of a Lifer as the process is known to produce vivid images that see beneath the skin, thus exposing one's soul and capturing the real person inside.

At the end of the trip, Matt will make his way back up to San Francisco for a gallery event displaying the one-of-a-kind wet plate photography collection he created along the way.

Week 2 is jam-packed full of excitement, as Matt and his crew head to Portland joined by the legendary Tim Windell and other Windell's Camp biking and skateboarding enthusiasts.


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