Tintype Year—Week Nineteen (May 7–May 13)

Thanks Salty Santa; Mr. Selfie (x2); The Monkey of the Traveling Toothbrush; Mario, the bent-wood man; Sebastian the young poet; my old pal Kieran Kane.

Lauren—15th November, Pt. 2

More of these. I adore this woman’s toughness, sweetness and honesty (and goofiness).

Ma and Pa are so excited.

They forgot to get totally dressed. Come on out to the big Our Town exhibit at the Main Nashville Public Library! Amazing mannequins from the old days of the downtown Castner-Knott sporting Our Town speed-suits. Stamped portraits! Letterpress prints of stamped portraits! Photographs on plywood! Moving pictures! It’s all there.

Lauren—15th November

Had a nice coffee-chat with this one last week, with a tentative plan to do a little picture taking. Kind of cold, so we just shot in the semi-empty space next to the shop. It was fun, was what it was. More later.

Tintype Year—Week Eighteen (April 30–May 6)

Still terribly behind posting, doubling up here. Thanks to Jenna at Third Man Records; Ms. Squibbin; Li’l Japanese Happy–man; Musician/audio fella Jason Goforth; Metalsmith Kirsten Skiles; Marketing person/friend Laura Spradley; Hair-slinger/bartender Kim Gates.

Tintype Year—Week Seventeen (April 23–April 29)

Thanks to photographer/educator Trent Boysen; Big Boy (unfortunately NOT the guy from Outkast); Irv the Bee–man; Marion the Wood-man; Jeff the Tin-man; Li’l Luchador; Mr. Selfie.

Our Town: Some (more) of my favorite recent portraits.

Our Town is wrapping up the initial year out-and-about Nashville making portraits, and evolving into other phases. Very excited about our upcoming show at the Nashville Public Library’s Main branch. The show will be up from November 22nd until the end of March or beginning of April (something like that). Please get by the NPL and check it out! Check Our Town Nashville on Facebook for updates. There’s rumored to be a fun closing party in the spring, and possibly a Bryce-led tour or two of the show.

These are a few from some of the later events: Casa Azafran, Metro Council, the Knowles Senior Center, and some from a few folks who walked into the shop and made a portrait here. The “surrogate grannies” at Knowles made some of my favorite odd, un-selfconscious portraits. As did the Council members, who seemed the most serious and grown-up, but made some pretty fun self-portraits. The Knowles ladies’ pictures were made using the worst available fluorescent lighting known to man, but their heart shines through.