my process

A tintype is a 19th-century photographic process that creates a one-of-a-kind image directly on a metal plate using wet plate collodion.

Each tintype begins by hand-coating a metal plate with collodion and bathing it in silver nitrate, making the surface sensitive to light. While still wet, the plate is loaded into the camera and exposed, then immediately developed, washed, dried, and carefully varnished.

The result is a handmade photograph created entirely through chemistry, light, and silver, no film, no digital files, and no two tintypes exactly alike.