Erika Weitz makes photographs that shouldn’t exist. Rather than translating reality into data, she translates data into reality.

Combining generative machine learning with wet plate collodion, one of photography's earliest processes, she brings synthetic images into the physical world to endure the same forces of light, chemistry, and time that birthed photography itself.

What emerges in silver on black metal is not a digital image or a traditional photograph, but a new form of chemical light painting. The work asks what is lost, what is gained and what survives when information becomes experience.