Bismarck-based photographer Shane Balkowitsch has been making portraits of Indigenous people using the historic wet plate method that would have been used about 150 years ago for similar posed photos.

Thanks to the instant chemistry between Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, the film pulls off their whirlwind romance.

Bismarck wet plate photographer Shane Balkowitsch created a portrait of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier after his sentence was commuted.