Vitamin Daily

With the lightening-fast advancements in camera technology, Polaroid snaps are about as old-school as we can manage.

Wilkosz and Way, the Calgary duo known for its fashion and portraiture photography, is going further back than most of us can imagine with their show, Glass Negatives, opening tomorrow.

The series of portraits of friends and peeps-around-town were shot using a technique dating back to 1871. Used as negatives, the glass plates are coated by hand with a light sensitive emulsion, and shot through a large format camera. The results are often wonderfully unpredictable and surprising.

No “photo approval” can be a beautiful thing.

Runs until January 9, 2010 at Pith Gallery, 1018 Ninth Ave. SE, Calgary, www.pithgallery.com