The US North East

The East Coast

For years I photographed the American West from a darkroom built into the back of a truck. These plates come from closer to home.

The Delaware River and the towns along it. Lambertville and New Hope, the bridges between them, the mills and barns that sit back from the road. Princeton's stone archways and the last farmstead left inside the town. The Maine coast at Acadia, where the granite was rounded by ice long before anyone thought to photograph it.

Every one of these was made on a wet plate, coated and exposed and developed on the spot, within minutes, before the collodion could dry. It's the process American photographers used from the 1850s through the 1880s, and it records a place the way those photographers recorded it: slowly, and only once.

Each print here is an archival giclée made from an original plate, available in multiple sizes. The marks along the edges are pour lines, left exactly as they came off the plate.

Many pieces are created using wet plate collodion and other historical processes, producing images with a tactile, artifact-like quality—rich tones, subtle imperfections, and a sense of time you can feel.

Limited-edition prints are available for select works. Explore the collection below.