Since then I've been possessed and shoot a lot of it. I collect and use 19th century cameras and experiment with very old lenses that are inimitable. I shoot a lot of nudes and still life but I also tend to use this technique for other purposes, reports, fashion and object photography.
How do you shoot your work? Do you use a team?
I shoot pretty much everything alone, with no assistants, I always did. In skateboard photography you sometimes set up a real studio with 5, 6 flashes in the middle of the street and you shoot medium format, no-one to clear the area, check the strobes and pack a new film in your back.
It's the same with ambrotypes except it requires even more control of everything. It's so complex and from mixing chemicals to processing you have so many steps, it's hard to focus on the photo itself sometimes. But I do everything by myself.
Soon, I'll be working with a stylist and hairdresser for fashion but it hasn't happened yet. My friend Julien Felix is a great wet collodion photographer, he is an amazing technician and we founded "ambrotypistes associes" together. He sometimes helps me because the only assistant I could use is someone who really knows the technique.