Back to Front and Upside Down: How a Tintype Sees You
Tintypes are mirror images of reality. The world is upside down and back to front, lettering on tshirts read backwards, and collodion barely sees red. Here's why, and how it fooled people about Billy the Kid.
He Came as a Soldier. His Great-Great-Grandson Came as Himself.
A man brought a tintype of his Civil War ancestor to my Lambertville studio, then sat for one himself. Same process, 160 years apart.
I Make My Own Film
Most photographs start with something bought. A roll, a card, a file. Mine start with a sheet of glass or blackened aluminum and a bottle of collodion I mixed myself.
There is no film in my studio. I make it one piece at a time when you arrive before I make your photograph.
The Vanishing Tattoo
The plate is blind to red and the ink sits under the skin. Some tattoos survive that translation. Some nearly disappear.
The Tin Anniversary — Taken Literally
10th Anniversary is for Tin - Tintype the perfect way to celebrate!
Wet Plate Collodion Tintype Portraits in Lambertville, NJ
Every wet plate collodion portrait I make in my Lambertville studio is a single, one-of-a-kind object — hand-poured, exposed in an antique camera, and developed in front of you while you watch the image rise out of the silver. There is one plate, and it is yours.
What Is Plate Day? A Hand-Made Portrait, Made the Old Way
A Wild West outlaw, captured the old way — a wet plate tintype portrait made by hand in the studio.