A blindfolded woman in a pale slip, draped in long strands of pearls, with rope tied over her eyes and bound around her arms and waist. Wet plate collodion tintype.
Brett Briggs behind a large format camera on a tripod, holding a patterned blanket up over it as a dark cloth and leaning out from underneath to look toward the viewer. Photographed by Lindsey Stewart McDermott.

Every plate here was made by hand, on metal, in front of the person in it.

I'm Brett Briggs, a Portrait photographer in Salt Lake City, UTAH.

This is my Portfolio

Most of what I make is a wet plate collodion tintype. The plate is blackened metal. I pour it by hand, expose it, and develop it in front of you. You watch the picture arrive, and you take it home.

I've been photographing for over twenty years — twelve of them commercial and editorial, plus years as an art director and content producer. I still take that work when the style fits. Most of my camera time now goes on slower portraits, one plate at a time, on a very large format camera.

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