wet plate

By Puyallup Tribal News Staff Chief Leschi High School senior and Puyallup Tribal Member Kenya Scabbyrobe had a unique opportunity to travel to Bismarck, N.D., with her family to take part in a photography session using natural light wet plate photography. This process dates back over 200 years.   Once arriving in Bismarck, the Scabbyrobe family met with ambrotypist Shane Balkowitsch. He is among a small number of individuals who use wet plate collodion, which was the predominant form of creating photography throughout Europe and North America dating back to the 1800s. The process involves exposing an image onto glass…