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\n\t\t\t\"David\t\t\t

David Life, one of the most famous yoga teachers in the USA and co-founder of the Jivamukti Yoga method. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

AP<\/em> receives a steady stream of books for review, so it takes something special to stop us in our tracks. Yoga: The Secret of Life<\/em> by US photographer Francesco Mastalia is one such book, being a collection of portraits of yoga masters taken using the Victorian wet collodion process. The images are stunningly beautiful. Compared to digital photography, wet collodion is mind bogglingly time-consuming and fiddly, so we caught up with Francesco to find out why (and how) he used a 19th-century process to document 21st-century yoga masters.<\/p>\n

Francesco lives and works in the Hudson valley in New York State, and cut his photographic teeth in New York City as assistant to commercial photographers. \u2018I knew from an early age that I wanted to be a photographer and when I got out of high school I asked myself, why should I work for a living when I can just take pictures? So I attended photography school in New York City and went on to assist for over 30 big-name advertising, portrait, fashion, food and architectural photographers. I\u2019ve been a freelance photographer since the late \u201970s and now mainly do corporate work, particularly portraits, as well as book projects.\u2019<\/p>\n

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When Francesco started work on the book, he didn\u2019t practise yoga, but soon became a convert. \u2018What got me started was seeing these practitioners, or yogis, in these extraordinary poses. I started to see the potential of human body as a thing of beauty, so the book was really about capturing its strength and grace.\u2019 His original goal was to photograph 108 yogis in different postures, but this approach had to change.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Chelsea\t\t\t

Chelsea Jackson Roberts, yoga master and academic. She runs numerous courses and workshops to encourage community building through yoga. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

\u2018One of my first subjects, who has been practising since the 1970s, said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be photographed in a yoga posture, I\u2019d prefer a meditation pose.\u201d I started to hear this emphasis on yoga as a spiritual practice from other subjects too, so I asked them to think of this as a self-portrait, a photograph that represents them and their practice. In other words, I let them decide how they wanted to be photographed.\u2019<\/p>\n

Francesco also reckons it was an advantage that he didn\u2019t practise yoga at the start of the project, as he might have been biased towards yogis from a particular style.<\/p>\n

At first glance it seems as if the yogis in the book were shot in a peaceful Indian forest, but their portraits were all taken near Francesco\u2019s home in Rhinebeck, two hours north of New York City.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is near me, and it attracts a lot of yoga practitioners from all over the world. They were on board from day one, enabling me to select some world-class yogis from their teaching catalogue. There are teachers from India, Sweden, Canada and all over the US. I prefer to work fairly close to home as it\u2019s hard to use the wet collodion process on the road \u2013 there are the chemicals to transport and you need a darkroom, so the expense would be prohibitive.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Shiva\t\t\t

Shiva Rea, yogi (female, yogini) and author who helps to spread her form of Vinyasa yoga around the world. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Wet, wet, wet<\/h2>\n

The next question is obvious \u2013 why did Francesco decide to use the wet collodion process at all? \u2018I\u2019ve been a devotee since 2005. My roots are in film photography and what I loved most about it was the darkroom. It was in here that I felt I was a photographer. When digital came along, it was supposed to make life easier for me but I said, hold on, I love using chemicals! I do now use a digital camera for commercial jobs but I was the last of my photographer friends to own one.<\/p>\n

\u2018What I love about wet collodion is that every step is done by hand. Making my own film, making my own emulsion, mixing my developer, using silver nitrate \u2013 you really are connected to the process. It\u2019s so unpredictable too. It presents all of these unknowns, which I find to be beautiful compared to the precision and predictability of digital photography. I like to work with a process which is challenging.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Shiv\t\t\t

Shiv Mirabito, who describes himself as a Tantric Buddhist- Hindu yogi. He is also a poet and photographer. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Another big attraction, according to Francesco, is that it\u2019s not possible to take the same photograph twice. \u2018There are so many elements which come into play. First, there\u2019s the sensitivity to ultraviolet light; I really don\u2019t know what the final image will look like. The process is also sensitive to the temperature, the humidity, and the age of the collodion.\u2019 You can forget any histograms, autofocus or sophisticated modern metering systems, either. \u2018There is no light meter to guide the exposure as there is no way to calculate all these variables in seconds. I have to work it out as I go along, based on past experience. I am not trying to freeze time, but to use time to capture the energy of light. The exposures range from 5-15 seconds and my shutter is taking in so much information, so nature plays a big role \u2013 the camera records wind, movement in the background, stuff that the eyes can\u2019t see. The process is full of beautiful surprises.\u2019<\/p>\n

So there were lots of challenges, but Francesco reckons that wet collodion photographers need to jettison any notions of technical perfection. \u2018People ask me, \u201cDo you shoot any bad ones before you get a perfect one?\u201d But I don\u2019t strive for perfection in this process as I don\u2019t know how to define it. Each plate I develop gives me information for the next one, and I embrace the way the chemicals or developers react. All these unknown elements appear, and for me art is what we decide to do with the unknown. I love seeing all these surprises when the image comes out.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Jared\t\t\t

Jared McCann, a self-confessed former drug addict turned yogi, famous for his incredible flexibility. \u2018Yoga definitely changed my life,\u2019 he says. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

The eyes have it<\/h2>\n

There are lot of portraits in the book, but Francesco does have his favourites. \u2018I love the image of Jared McCann (above) who does the most amazing things with his body. I also like the close-ups of the yogis. I thought it would be great to look into their eyes as there are plenty of pictures of Dharma Mittra, for example, standing on his head with no hands. He is now 77 but when he was in his 40s, he photographed himself in over 1,000 different yoga postures as a sign of devotion to his guru. I told him this book shoot would be a lot easier as I just wanted to capture his eyes! I also got some great close-ups of David Life. The exposures on these portraits are about 5-10 seconds, so you really feel you are looking into the eyes of these masters and can feel their energy penetrating you. One of the most powerful things we can do is to look into eyes of another human being.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Dharma\t\t\t

Dharma Mittra, another world-famous yogi. Francesco was keen to capture the power of his gaze. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Francesco may revel in the arcane Victorian wet collodion process, but he had to embrace modern realities when getting the book ready.<\/p>\n

\u2018I work on making black glass (ambertypes) and underneath light they look amazing, with beautiful gradation. Once you scan the plates, they turn into something else. While I can\u2019t match the plate exactly, I approach the process from a darkroom perspective, adjusting density or contrast while trying to stay close to the original.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Amanbir\"\t\t\t

Amanbir, a herbalist, massage therapist and acupuncturist, as well as a top yogi. Credit: Francesco Mastalia<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

While a lot of photographers would have to turn to crowdfunding to get such a niche book project off the ground, Francesco already had a relationship with publisher powerHouse Books and he gave them first refusal. \u2018powerHouse has been fantastic, it does a lot of photography books and did a great job with the printing.\u2019 His next project is going to be a book on celebrities who practise Buddhism, again using the wet collodion process. \u2018I am starting next spring and it\u2019s also going to be based in the US. Another book on Buddhist monks wouldn\u2019t get much attention, but by focusing on the many well-known people who practise Buddhism, I hope the book will get noticed more.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\"FrancescoFrancesco Mastalia is a US photographer and passionate exponent of the wet collodion process for his book projects. See his work at www.francescomastalia.com<\/a>. Yoga: The Secret of Life<\/em> published by powerHouse books (ISBN 978-157687-856-9) is on sale now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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