Modern Tintype

A tintype photography studio. It creates one-off, hand-crafted photographs on metal using the 19th-century wet plate process. The studio is on the eastern edge of downtown Los Angeles, and the photographer is available for events at locations such as retail spaces, parties, hotels, private residences, and funeral homes. Portraits and other wet plate imagery are available. Modern Tintype also offers workshops with Brian Cuyler of UV Photographics, which supplies wet plate photography chemistry. The photographer has more than twenty years of experience and also shoots film, primarily with medium and large format cameras and vintage lenses. The studio is operated by Michael Chylinski, whose photography credits include books, magazines, and album covers.