Documenting the Brave Crews of British Seas with @lordlowe
To see more of Jack’s lifeboat photography from the start of the project, follow (@lordlowe) on Instagram.
When Jack Lowe (@lordlowe) was only nine years old, he knew his career path would follow one of his two life passions: photography or lifeboats. Now, with a long photographic and printing career behind him, he is combining his love for the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (@RNLI), the sea and photography in one epic project.
Using a 19th century “wet collodion” process, developed around the same time the lifeboats were incorporated to provide search and rescue service around the British Isles, Jack will take photos at all 237 RNLI stations on the coastlines. “The project will be a fundraiser and awareness-raiser for the RNLI,” says Jack, who is developing on the go in an old ambulance that’s been converted into a darkroom. “People have a real emotional connection with some of the stations – maybe they were saved once or their family are lifeboat crew. They are incredibly brave and inspiring.”
At each stop, Jack plans to take three wet plate photos – of the crew, the coxswain and the seascape.
“When you hold a glass plate in your hand it’s like a time capsule,” he explains. “Like somehow you’ve managed to trap that moment within that piece of glass. It’s grainless because it’s a smooth wet plate, so it’s an extraordinary image which has soul.”
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