A fossil is not a drawing of a creature. It's the mark the creature left in the world.

My glass plates work the same way. As well as running a Tintype portrait studio in Lambertville New Jersey I travel across America — from New Jersey to Route 66 to the vast landscapes of the Southwest — seeking the balance point.

When that light strikes the chemistry I've coated by hand onto glass, it doesn't get recorded or translated. It causes a chemical reaction, every gradation of that light leaves its mark directly on the glass as densities of silver on the surface of the plate - like the sound waves recorded on wax for a vinyl record, a physical recording of the moment and place.

Then I develop the plate — reading what it received, adjusting my chemistry in response. Two things acting on the same glass. The light, and my judgment. Both permanent. Both unrepeatable.

This is a process unchanged since the 1850s. I mix the chemistry myself. I coat the glass by hand. Every plate I make is the direct physical result of being in a specific place, on a specific day, with a specific quality of light that will not come again.

Authentic impressions left by reality.

Prints My fine art prints are made directly from these glass negatives. A print descended from the original chemical event. Available as limited editions — each one documented, signed, and unrepeatable.

Portraits I also make wet plate tintype and ambrotype portraits at my New Jersey studio and at select locations. If you want a photograph that will outlast everything in your house, this is it.