Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill

Neill lugged a big wooden camera into Southern India in the 1850s and set up in front of sun-baked temples, waiting for the light to flatten shadows so the carvings would read sharp as type. He shot the Hullabeed friezes from so many angles that the stone gods look like they’re crawling off the walls. His prints feel less like souvenirs and more like blueprints for how we’d later see the past. Tap his “Hindoo Temple Sculptures, Southern India, Hullabeed” to watch daylight turn myth into monochrome.