About the Book

Meet George Kingswood, a modern-day alchemist who doesn’t

work with lead or gold, but with light, shadow, and silver nitrate.

The heir to a hidden lineage of spiritual alchemists, Kingswood

uses photography to transmute his soul, his earthly reality, and

even to collaborate with the dead.

Blending rich historical insight with esoteric wisdom, this book

 unveils a revelation: the forgotten bond between alchemy and

 photography. This account examines the medieval laboratories

 where scholars sought the Philosopher’s Stone, as well as the

19th-century pioneers of light, silver, and mercury, including

Louis Daguerre.

At its heart, this story is about Kingswood’s extraordinary

practice: a fusion of ancient Egyptian ritual, sacred darkroom

chemistry, and visionary art. Part history, part mystical

memoir, part photographic grimoire, A Feather on the Breath of

Ra is for seekers of hidden knowledge, lovers of photography,

and those enchanted by the mysteries of alchemy.

Garin Horner is an artist, author, and full professor of Art at

Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. He has been an award-

winning photographer for over 30 years. His work has been

exhibited worldwide and is included in the collections of several

art museums across the United States. Horner is considered an

authority on pedagogy in the field of photography in higher

education and has authored three influential books on teaching

and learning photography. He is a long-standing member of

the Royal Photographic Society, in England, and the Society for

Photographic Education in the U.S. Over the past eight years,

Horner has received several research grants to study the history

of alchemy, the history of photography, and the life of

contemporary alchemist George Kingswood.