Route 66 — Wet Plate Collodion on the Mother Road
A hand-crafted photographic journey across America’s most iconic highway
Created over thousands of miles along America’s most iconic highway, this Route 66 collection honors in its 100th anniversary year and captures the spirit of the Mother Road using the 19th-century wet plate collodion process. Traveling with a mobile darkroom in my Airstream, I poured, exposed, and developed each plate on location—often in desert heat, roadside dust, and fading neon light.
Every image began as a hand-made collodion negative, touched by the elements and shaped by the unpredictability of silver and ether. The imperfections, flow lines, and organic edges are part of the truth of the process, preserving the grit, romance, and quiet loneliness that still lives along Route 66.
From Tucumcari’s glowing motels to abandoned gas stations in the high desert—and finally to the Pacific terminus in Santa Monica—this body of work reflects a road that refuses to disappear. These limited-edition prints are archival, museum-grade reproductions of the original plates, made for collectors who feel the pull of the open road and the history beneath it.
