Ambrotyping, also known as wet-plate collodion, is a photographic process invented in 1855. Process-intensive, the photographer either needs to be working just outside a darkroom or has to carry a portable darkroom with them, as the plate can not be allowed to dry before development. All of the chemistry is poured by hand, making numerous imperfections unless complete mastery of the process has been reached.

These are portraits I took of people who I taught the basic wet-plate process to. These are made on textured glass, which causes the chemicals to pool, accentuating any imperfections in the plates and introducing new patterns on the images.