I have always found alternative photography very interesting, so I was delighted to learn that the Glenesk Folk Museum houses almost 200 of these remarkable glass plate photographs made with the gelatine dry plate process over a hundred years ago.

As part of the exploration into the museum's collection I took the opportunity to digitalise them with the help of Glenesk Folk Museum volunteer Ken Kidston who himself is a keen photographer. The task involved photographing each glass plate and creating a digital database of them. 

The following two works of  were inspired by some of these glass plate images of times long gone.