The Boys of Collodion
The young bare chested men in this series of portraits, with their free flowing dark hair and wide opened stares, seem to harken back to the first decades of photography, as much as having been pulled of the local skateboard park. Glued to whatever is confronting them head-on, their fixated gazes might betray the name of the place that they mythically hail from: Collodion, from the Greek kollōdes,meaning "gluelike.” Looking like they have become suddenly entranced by the song of the sirens, or nearly petrified by the head of the gorgon, the boys of collodion are our modern day kouroi. Stripped of color except for a single red badge-medal and scar-they are glued and unglued at once.
-Dr. John Paul Ricco, University of Toronto