
Michitane Soma, the head of an 800-year-old samurai clan in Soma, Fukushima.

Photographer Everett Kennedy Brown used a 19th-century technique create portraits of modern-day descendents of samurai.

Use of a wet plate collodion process makes the photographs look historical, the photographer said.

Brown hopes that the images will engage the subjects and viewers to think about history and how it is made.

Each person who posed for a portrait had to sit still for up to two full seconds.

Brown only used one shot per person.

The models are both descendents of important samurai families and local Soma residents with a strong attachment to this tradition.

Brown grew interested in the distinct patterns and motifs found on his subjects' clothes.

Brown hopes to foster a cultural dialogue between fashion designers and local Soma residents on the roots of samurai fashion.

A samurai helmet captured in one of Brown's photographs.


