team and Network
Brian Cuyler
A longtime wet plate photographer and camera builder who also runs UV Photographics, one of the premier suppliers of chemistry and equipment to the wet plate and historic photographic process community. With a background in chemistry he has improved upon classic wet plate formulas making them safer and easier to use. He has supplied and consulted with many of the leading contemporary wet plate photographers working today.
Mike Chylinski
Runs Modern Tintype, a contemporary wet plate portrait studio located in Los Angeles. His tintype images have appeared in exhibitions at galleries in the U.S. and abroad, and have also been part of literary collaborations. His film photography has appeared in books, magazines and on album covers as far back as the late 1990s. His interest in photographic history also includes the found snapshot, and he is at work on a book of inscribed vernacular photos in collaboration with Atlanta’s Fall Line Press.
Collodion and Alternative Process Network
Mike and Brian have a large network of historic process photographers and practitioners to support any size production or event.