To have your portrait made with this process is to both acquire and become a piece of photographic history.

The crafted object is the very light you reflect, shaped by optics, conjured by chemistry, distilled into an artifact.

What is Wet Plate Collodion?

The wet plate collodion process was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in the early 1850’s. An iodized collodion solution is poured onto a carefully cleaned and prepared surface, then dipped into silver nitrate. The sensitized plate is then used to make a photograph. The most common results of this process were tintypes which used black enameled metal as the base support. An ambrotype is the same process but uses glass as the support. Many of the tintypes and ambrotypes from over 150 years ago, still exist in fine condition today.