Tintype in the wild

I know that there are some photographers that stick with just one medium, that isn’t me. Each medium has is pros and cons and for me its all about what tells the story the best. Tintypes for me create a connection that isn’t there with most other photographs, the methodology of the Tintype creates a physical connection to a place. The plate the image is on has been taken into the world, that plate has had the world projected upon it, burning the silver halides in the emulsion only to later be revealed in the development process bringing the image to life. This plate that has seen the place, been to the place, felt the place is permanently connected to that place.

The younger sibling of WetPlate photography, Dry plate photography was born in 1871 and soon took the world by storm allowing photographers to make images in places that they couldn’t get a Wetplate photography setup. This is how the World was first documented. All of my nature images are originals, Plates poured by hand, taken in the field and hand developed. I do not scan these images or create duplicates they are intended to be seen in person (next best thing to being there yourself).