My name is Michael Chylinski, and I make tintypes — one-off, hand-crafted photos on metal produced the same way they were during the 19th century. It’s a very beautiful way of making images, and one that has experienced something of a revival in recent years — partly, I believe, as an antidote to the increasingly ephemeral nature of photographs in today’s world. If you’d like a portrait (or any other sort of wet plate imagery), please contact me. My studio is on the eastern edge of downtown Los Angeles — with a second location in the mountain town of Wrightwood, an hour and a quarter away — and I am also available for events. I have shot many, at retail locations, parties, hotels, private residences, and even a funeral home (which as far as I am aware are the only post-mortem tintypes that have been produced in the modern wet plate era).
Modern Tintype also offers workshops along with Brian Cuyler of UV Photographics, which supplies many of the wet plate photographers around the country with their chemistry. The next one is scheduled for the weekend of March 23-24, 2024, but that weekend is full. Space is still available for the following one, which will be held the weekend of April 20-21. Please check the UV Photographics website for more info or contact me.
