Weekend metal (2025)
The tintype, a photographic process dating back to 1850, has taken me a full year of learning and sleepless nights. Yet, despite the energy it demands, I would compare it to the simplicity of a Polaroid: spontaneous, meant to capture the energy of a place, a face.
Fresh out of art school, I needed that spontaneity. To cut corners, to let go.
At the same time, I wanted to create with my community, around whom projects naturally gravitate.
One weekend. No long preparation, no set. Just the intensity of the moment, the trust of an encounter—where one agrees to be fixed on metal, and the other must, in less than 30 minutes, deliver a chemical portrait.
These queer faces are now etched into an archival medium that will endure for centuries.