I started making tintypes via the historic wet plate collodion process (invented in the 1850s) about 15 years ago. A couple summers ago I started making a bunch 5×7 portraits on aluminum. There was no particular reason I chose that size, other than I had a lot of pre-cut black aluminum plates on hand, and I like the way they fit in my hand.
This past summer I kept on making portraits in this format and now I have enough of them to call it a project.
There are a few images below I chose to include here that are not new but still fit in well with the other, more recent images. Also, some of these I made on my own and some are portrait commissions.
If you’d like to add your face to my collection. Give me a shout.
