What the Analog Section on dasilvaphoto.com Shows

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The Analog section on Peter DaSilva's website collects his film-based and alternative-process photography, separate from the digital portfolios and photo essays that make up most of the site. It is organized into three named series: Life Squared, PANOed, and Wet Plate Collodion. If you want to see how a working photojournalist handles non-digital formats, this is the part of the site to browse.

The three series at a glance

Series What it appears to cover
Life Squared Square-format work built around distinct thematic sets (listed below)
PANOed Panoramic photography
Wet Plate Collodion Work in the 19th-century wet plate collodion process

The section sits alongside the site's other main areas — Portfolios (People, Culinary, Moments, Places), Photo-Essays, Published, Overxposed, Gear, Store, About, Blog, and Contact — so it reads as a deliberate grouping of analog output rather than a single project page.

Life Squared and its themes

Life Squared is the largest of the three, split into four titled bodies of work:

  • Negative Space — work organized around empty or open areas in the frame
  • Old Glory — imagery tied to the American flag
  • The Trump Era — a set framed around the political period
  • Wanderings — travel or roaming photographs

The titles suggest the series is thematic rather than chronological: each set takes one idea or subject and works it in a square format. The presence of "The Trump Era" next to "Old Glory" indicates the section mixes personal observation with overtly political material, consistent with DaSilva's background as a photojournalist.

PANOed and Wet Plate Collodion

PANOed groups panoramic images — a format that suits landscape and street work where a wide field of view matters. Wet Plate Collodion is the outlier: it is a historical process in which a glass or metal plate is coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed while still wet, producing one-of-a-kind images. Its inclusion signals that the Analog section is about process as much as subject — the site is showing both how the pictures were made and what they depict.

How to use this section

Start with Life Squared if you want to see how a single theme plays out across a set; go to Wet Plate Collodion if your interest is in alternative processes; use PANOed for wide-format examples. Because the site presents these as galleries without accompanying technical notes in the navigation, treat the series titles as the guide to what each collection contains rather than expecting captions or process explanations on the index pages.