See Until I See No More.

Photographs by Isa Marcelli. Text by Reid Masselink.

Skeleton Key Press, Oslo, 2023. English, 128 pp., 87 plates, 8x10¼".

See Until I See No More is the debut monograph of Isa Marcelli and presents a substantial collection of her finest photographic works in an exquisite clothbound limited edition. Formerly a furniture designer and mosaic artist, Marcelli turned to photography in 2008, representing a new pathway to explore her personal vision. In the succeeding years, her inventive approach to the medium helped her emerge as a distinct voice among contemporary photographers participating in the revival of the reverse technology/alternative and historic process movement. Yet, while Marcelli’s wet plate collodion and lith pieces featured in See Until I See No More are notable for how they were made, it’s her willingness to embrace not only the unpredictable results that such processes lend themselves but also the equally unpredictable and more significant existential questions that bring her work authenticity, depth, and meaning.

And while the book will surely be appreciated by anyone interested in alternative process photography, Marcelli’s photographs—simultaneously delicate and powerful, mysterious and revealing—transcend the methods in which they were made. Her works often appear as if they were drawn from memory and offer viewers a reprieve from the chaotic world. They are universal because they are personal and act as archetypes of the unconscious, revealing more as the layers are peeled away. The photographs—portraits of family and friends, still lifes, florals, and places of tranquil refuge—are rich with symbolism and can be seen as metaphors for feminity, mortality, aging, desire, remembrance, the cycle of life, and becoming one with nature. Marcelli’s is a poetic, sensitive universe where nature and humanity mingle and reveal a vision of the world imbued with the fragility of existing—one in which viewers are welcomed in the pages of See Until I See No More.

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