Tin Questions

My next guest probably needs no introduction to anyone that has been remotely involved with collodion work over the last decade. I finally get to sit down with another one of the foundational photographers in the modern wetplate resurgence, Quinn Jacobson. After learning the process, he spent 5 years in Europe traveling and teaching the process to hundreds of budding wetplate photographers. Listen...

Yes, Tin Questions is back. What better way to kick off season 2 of the podcast than sitting down with a renowned photographer who's following in the steps of Ansel Adams with his artist in residency sessions with the National Park Service. Known in the wetplate world for his Native American portraiture, Joseph Kayne is also an accomplished landscape photographer. Hear about how a chance trip to E...

Let's see... Star Wars, check. Breaking Bad, check. Talking about wetplate, check. Great guest, maybe not? In this mid-season finale, we've got everything except for the cliffhanger when it comes to collodion. Unfortunately, you're stuck listening to me, Chad Shryock, in this episode and hearing about how I got into collodion and what kind of gear I'm shooting with. After this epis...

This week, we're talking to a collodion photographer that's more than just the traditional tintypist. Combining collodion and jewelry with whimsical and sometimes dark still life scenes, Angie Brockey is part of a small group of wetplaters using atypical substrates. After being coaxed into checking out the process by her husband, Angie fell in love with the collodion process. Seizing an opportunit...

What do Norwegian Black Metal, Zamboni driving and reenactment tintype photography have in common? They are all pursuits in the wheelhouse of our next guest, Dave Wilson, owner and wetplate photographer at Victorian Photographic Studio in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. We chat about how Dave stumbled into wetplate with no past experience in photography but was hooked after that first plate. Not only fo...

As promised, we finally have our first international guest on the podcast.  From his quaint home in the forests of Slovenia, wetplate collodion photographer and printmaker Borut Peterlin sits down to talk about his journey from carpenter to photographer. Matching the utility of his 1972 Landrover, Borut hasn't confined himself to just one-off wetplates, but instead continues a tradition of al...

We're heading to the East Coast in this episode to sit down with professional music photographer and owner of NYC Tintype, Justin Borucki. For the last 9 years, Justin has been incorporating wetplate collodion work along side his professional music artist portraits. Listen in as he talks about his exploits of carting around a mobile studio while capturing the NYC street life from bodegas to passer...

This week's episode of Tin Questions takes me a few hours down the road to a small, artistic mountain town located in south central Colorado to speak with photographer Tim Brown, owner/operator of Salida Tintype. Tim has been a professional photographer for decades, growing up with film and moving to digital but was intrigued with the look that wetplate photography could provide as a tool for his...

In this episode, I have the pleasure of sitting down with one of the veterans of the modern day collodion movement.  Jody Ake was getting into the process in the late 90's when information was scarce and practicing wetplate photographers were even harder to find.  While working on his Master's thesis, Jody challenged himself to learn this vintage process after being inspired at the libra...

Next up on Tin Questions - a man and a bus and a camera.  What else is there to know? Plenty, so listen in as I talk to Joseph Wyman Brown and find out more about his love of photography and capturing the essence of people through portraits, his gear and what life on the road is like when you're slingin' tin. 

In this episode of Tin Questions, I chat with tintypist Christine Eadie who focuses in on a specific timeframe of American history, the Civil War.  Tintypes were highly sought after from 1861 through 1865 as soldiers marched off to war and modern day reenactors are no different. Christine shares how she jumped into the genre of reenactment photography, the challenges that come when working wi...

This week's episode of Tin Questions sits down with California collodionist, Conrad Young and talks about about his journey into wetplate. With some great stories on capturing the solemn landscapes of Canyon de Chelly, what it's like living in a mobile darkroom on the road and chatting about his big ideas for a future dream project, there's lots to take in with our latest guest on the show.

In this season opener of Tin Questions, I've asked my friend Shane Balkowitsch to sit down with me and dig into not only his passion for wetplate, but talk about his natural light studio and photographic gear.  With over a decade of shooting wetplate collodion ambrotypes in Bismarck, North Dakota, Shane and I chat about his experience creating his first plates, his current projects including...

Welcome to Tin Questions! In 1851, Frederick Scott Archer released the wetplate collodion process to the world enabling photographers with the ability to create ambrotypes and tintypes. A hundred years later, the process was almost relegated to the dustbin of history until a recent resurgence of creative photographers came along. Modern day practitioners of the process are the centerstage of this...