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Colonial Williamsburg The Colonial Williamsburg series consists of images captured during my first visit to this national treasure in the spring of 2007. Out of hundreds of pictures, I chose 25 that interact with each other, suggesting what it is like to walk through Colonial Williamsburg as the early morning light and shadows begin moving across Duke of Gloucester Street. In this series I explore architecture, livestock, and gardens, as we as the historic interpreters who live and work in Colonial Williamsburg. Images are grouped by format: Fifteen black and white images are printed on silver gelatin, fiber-based paper and ten images are in color, printed with archival, pigmented inks on fine art paper.
I photographed this series using a handheld Mamiya 7ii rangefinder camera with a normal lens (80mm) and fine-grained film. I worked with the natural light I was given each day. Indoor shots, such as the Harpsichord Builder, presented special challenges because of very low light levels and longer than usual shutter speeds. --Allen C. Benson
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