Climate Change Activist Greta Thunberg Is Eternalized Using A 150-Year-Old Photography Technique
Greta Thunberg may be the most talked-about 16-year-old today. After her famous speech at the UN Climate Summit, she found a way into the public’s consciousness and has even angered some of the most powerful people on Earth. The Swedish climate activist is trying to shed a light on the environmental crisis and accuses world leaders of failing her generation. Thus, it’s no surprise that Greta decided to visit Standing Rock – a place where the historic 2016 uprising took place as indigenous groups were fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline. It was where she met with Shane Bolkowitsch – a wet plate photographer who takes mesmerizing portraits of Northern Plains Native Americans for his project “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective.” During their 20 minute meet-up, the photographer was able to capture two powerful portraits of the 16-year-old environmental activist.
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Wet plate photographer Shane Bolkowitsch took two Greta Thunberg portraits at Standing Rock
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
“Haunting, wonderful,” someone commented on Facebook. “I’m speechless. You captured how strong yet peaceful she is,” another person noted. In the Standing Rock, Greta was honored by tribal leaders for her initiative to fight climate change. During the closing ceremony, the 16-year-old activist was given a Lakota Native American name “Maphiyata echiyatan his win” which translates as “woman who came from the heavens.”
He called this portrait “Standing For Us All”
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
Below this portrait, Shane wrote on his Facebook page: “Standing For Us All” is the name I have chosen for this wet plate of Greta Thunberg. This image has been shared hundreds of times with thousands of likes in the past 24 hours. Before she left us yesterday, I asked her father Svante a question. I asked him, “What can I do for Greta and her cause?” He explained to me that I have already done my role by taking her wet plate. His only request was that the images be shared with the world along with Greta’s message: “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”
Greta was given a Lakota Native American name which translates as “woman who came from the heavens”
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
The wet plate process is a photographic process commonly used in the mid-19th century. It consists of employing a glass photographic plate that’s coated with iodized collodion and dipped in a silver nitrate solution immediately before use. This early photographic technique was invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. Even nowadays, there are many photographers who rely on the wet plate technique as it provides powerful portraits and one-of-a-kind results.
Shane Balkowitsch is the artist behind the project “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective”
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
He uses a 150-year-old photographic process for his artwork
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
Shane has devoted himself to mastering the old photographic technology since 2012
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
The wet plate process was invented back in 1851
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
It is valued for its ability to achieve high levels of detail and clarity
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
Shane is one of the fewer than 1,000 wet plate collodion artists practicing around the world
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
His works are shown off in prestigious institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution
Image credits: Shane Balkowitsch
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Share on FacebookRegardless of what you think about Greta, the photographer has produced really great images. I think this is what we should celebrate here. And also regardless of what you think about climate change and activism, Greta is a child. Do you feel threatened, jealous, scared? What good reason do you have to insult a child? She has done nothing wrong. Shame on you. She has an opinion, opinions are allowed. If you hate her and her cause, why did you click on the story?
So much hate towards a little human just trying her best to spread awareness to help us ALL. I feel deeply for her, she's doing a lot more than anyone in this comment section sitting on their a*s spewing hate. The world needs her vocalness and mobility, we need change.
the hate is for those using this girl for their agenda......................like you
Load More Replies...Bored Panda has got some really nasty trolls lately. If it is a political or slightly controversial article, be prepared to be in the minority on this site and get down-voted. You don't have to agree with Greta, but the people who call her a psycho, monster, or "ugly" on this site are really pitiful
I agree with you 100%, you have to have something quite wrong with you if you have nothing better to do than take childish cheap shorts at a young girl who's only crime is she is worried about the world she lives in, and you are jealous over the fact she has become famous because of it seriously what is wrong with you people.
Load More Replies...Wow, just wow - this is the ugliest series of comments I've ever seen on here for any story. That's discouraging.
You do of course know when the left realizes she will ultimately be as effective as David Hogg they will throw her away and she fade into Oblivion.And no she is not sent from heaven she is sent from George Soros and all she has done is show how low the left will go to advance their agenda.Question why not send her to China and spout her nonsense oh I know why their response will be go home little one before we put in education camp to get your mind right,but as always they want the United States to pay for it all.
Nope. She doesn't deserve the notoriety, she doesn't deserve the respect, and she definitely didn't deserve the Nobel Prize, which luckily, she didn't get, or there probably would have been a riot or two. Captain Planet has done more for climate change than this child, and people who support her are either mindless idiots who can't think for themselves, or people who are using scaremongering tactics to gain attention. Every time I've seen an Extinction Rebellion activist interviewed on TV, their boring one-note rhetoric is slammed, dissected, and countered by even the most incompetent journalists who seem to have only researched the issue five minutes before the interview. Blocking traffic in major cities, and supergluing yourselves to trains or buildings isn't the way to get people to fight climate change. I've lived twice as long as this child, and I can't say the world is in any more danger than it was before she was born.
How are people agreeing with you?? We have a little over a decade before climate change is irreversible. It's a crisis. The fact you've lived twice as long doesn't make you wise about climate change. It makes you twice as ignorant that you still haven't come around and tried drastic measures to do something. We're almost out of time and kids like us are going to have to deal with it. Knowing BP now, I'm prepared for downvotes.
Load More Replies...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GRETA! Pity the negativity of the poor posters here. Forgive them their ignorance. WE DEFINITELY NEED MORE "GRETAS!"
This is what will win over the middle aged and older people who are skeptical about climate change: a pouting 16 year old girl, especially that photo at the top where she's looks like she's part of a nightmare scene in a Stephen King movie.
she does look like one of the twin girls..........................come play with us!!
Load More Replies...I think that it's horrible how so many grown adults are mocking Greta -- she's a child! And to all those who are saying that she hasn't done anything, how about when she sailed to America with no carbon footprint? How about when she organizes worldwide strikes for climate change? The only reason that she can't do anything bigger is that she doesnt' have the power to -- instead, she is raising awareness and giving speeches at the UN because that's all she can do!
you can't silence people no matter how hard you want to
Load More Replies...You can discuss the issues tangential to this thread with OUT attacking the person. Pandas I really expect better from you all.
I HATE this comments section. All you adults really need to check your own minds before you call a child the sickest names possible. I don't know much about Greta at all but PLEASE stop being a******s. If you can't say anything nice, shut up.
What, Foxxy? I've lost all my respect for you. I didn't know you were like this. Your comments are usually so wholesome. It's really sad how BP shows its true side only on a climate change post.
Load More Replies...I love her. She drawn more attention to climate change than most people have been able to.
Am I wrong? Who was the last girl her age able to have so many people behind her? I'm part of gen z, and most other kids my age didn't care about climate change until we heard about her. Maybe she herself isn't making such an impact, but she's leading millions of people to do so.
Load More Replies...Even if they aren't a grown adult, they can type and articulate stuff so I think they're old enough to know that sending hate is TERRIBLE. especially to a MINOR. Also you too, for being so cocky and condescending. Downvote the s**t out of my comment cause you don't wanna hear what's real 😂😂😂 if you feel this threatened you should really stop bullying people.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda has got some really nasty trolls lately. If it is a political or slightly controversial article, be prepared to be in the minority on this site and get down-voted. You don't have to agree with Greta, but the people who call her a psycho, monster, or "ugly" on this site are really pitiful
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Load More Replies...Regardless of what you think about Greta, the photographer has produced really great images. I think this is what we should celebrate here. And also regardless of what you think about climate change and activism, Greta is a child. Do you feel threatened, jealous, scared? What good reason do you have to insult a child? She has done nothing wrong. Shame on you. She has an opinion, opinions are allowed. If you hate her and her cause, why did you click on the story?
So much hate towards a little human just trying her best to spread awareness to help us ALL. I feel deeply for her, she's doing a lot more than anyone in this comment section sitting on their a*s spewing hate. The world needs her vocalness and mobility, we need change.
the hate is for those using this girl for their agenda......................like you
Load More Replies...Bored Panda has got some really nasty trolls lately. If it is a political or slightly controversial article, be prepared to be in the minority on this site and get down-voted. You don't have to agree with Greta, but the people who call her a psycho, monster, or "ugly" on this site are really pitiful
I agree with you 100%, you have to have something quite wrong with you if you have nothing better to do than take childish cheap shorts at a young girl who's only crime is she is worried about the world she lives in, and you are jealous over the fact she has become famous because of it seriously what is wrong with you people.
Load More Replies...Wow, just wow - this is the ugliest series of comments I've ever seen on here for any story. That's discouraging.
You do of course know when the left realizes she will ultimately be as effective as David Hogg they will throw her away and she fade into Oblivion.And no she is not sent from heaven she is sent from George Soros and all she has done is show how low the left will go to advance their agenda.Question why not send her to China and spout her nonsense oh I know why their response will be go home little one before we put in education camp to get your mind right,but as always they want the United States to pay for it all.
Nope. She doesn't deserve the notoriety, she doesn't deserve the respect, and she definitely didn't deserve the Nobel Prize, which luckily, she didn't get, or there probably would have been a riot or two. Captain Planet has done more for climate change than this child, and people who support her are either mindless idiots who can't think for themselves, or people who are using scaremongering tactics to gain attention. Every time I've seen an Extinction Rebellion activist interviewed on TV, their boring one-note rhetoric is slammed, dissected, and countered by even the most incompetent journalists who seem to have only researched the issue five minutes before the interview. Blocking traffic in major cities, and supergluing yourselves to trains or buildings isn't the way to get people to fight climate change. I've lived twice as long as this child, and I can't say the world is in any more danger than it was before she was born.
How are people agreeing with you?? We have a little over a decade before climate change is irreversible. It's a crisis. The fact you've lived twice as long doesn't make you wise about climate change. It makes you twice as ignorant that you still haven't come around and tried drastic measures to do something. We're almost out of time and kids like us are going to have to deal with it. Knowing BP now, I'm prepared for downvotes.
Load More Replies...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GRETA! Pity the negativity of the poor posters here. Forgive them their ignorance. WE DEFINITELY NEED MORE "GRETAS!"
This is what will win over the middle aged and older people who are skeptical about climate change: a pouting 16 year old girl, especially that photo at the top where she's looks like she's part of a nightmare scene in a Stephen King movie.
she does look like one of the twin girls..........................come play with us!!
Load More Replies...I think that it's horrible how so many grown adults are mocking Greta -- she's a child! And to all those who are saying that she hasn't done anything, how about when she sailed to America with no carbon footprint? How about when she organizes worldwide strikes for climate change? The only reason that she can't do anything bigger is that she doesnt' have the power to -- instead, she is raising awareness and giving speeches at the UN because that's all she can do!
you can't silence people no matter how hard you want to
Load More Replies...You can discuss the issues tangential to this thread with OUT attacking the person. Pandas I really expect better from you all.
I HATE this comments section. All you adults really need to check your own minds before you call a child the sickest names possible. I don't know much about Greta at all but PLEASE stop being a******s. If you can't say anything nice, shut up.
What, Foxxy? I've lost all my respect for you. I didn't know you were like this. Your comments are usually so wholesome. It's really sad how BP shows its true side only on a climate change post.
Load More Replies...I love her. She drawn more attention to climate change than most people have been able to.
Am I wrong? Who was the last girl her age able to have so many people behind her? I'm part of gen z, and most other kids my age didn't care about climate change until we heard about her. Maybe she herself isn't making such an impact, but she's leading millions of people to do so.
Load More Replies...Even if they aren't a grown adult, they can type and articulate stuff so I think they're old enough to know that sending hate is TERRIBLE. especially to a MINOR. Also you too, for being so cocky and condescending. Downvote the s**t out of my comment cause you don't wanna hear what's real 😂😂😂 if you feel this threatened you should really stop bullying people.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda has got some really nasty trolls lately. If it is a political or slightly controversial article, be prepared to be in the minority on this site and get down-voted. You don't have to agree with Greta, but the people who call her a psycho, monster, or "ugly" on this site are really pitiful
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