Lots of wet plate collodion action happening this summer and fall at various reenactments and living history events. You can find me making photographs like its 1999 1862 at the following events. May 19 & 20: West Virginia Black Powder Shootout, Putam County Gun Club, Eleanor, W.Va. June 2: Harrisonburg Court & Market Days Festival, Turner Pavilion & Park, Harrisonburg, Va. June 20: West Virginia Day, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Cass, W.Va. July 6 & 7: Pioneer Days, Pocahontas [...]

Monica Orosz, of the Charleston Daily Mail, recently spoke with me about my foray into the world of wet-plate collodion photography. Thanks to Michael Buttrill, of Bootstraps Farm in Renick, for the only photos I currently have of myself actually working with the process. CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Pocahontas County writer and photographer Drew Tanner has plenty of modern technological amenities at hand to do his job. They make it fast and easy to take digital images and upload them immediately [...]

My solo exhibit, Elemental Photography: Light, Silver, Iron, opens at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg this Saturday. The exhibit features 16 black and white prints from my study of Honeycomb Rocks (Gauley Mountain) and some 40 tintypes and alumitypes. This is a much-expanded version of the exhibit that was recently on display at the Hillsboro Library. Thanks so much to Lynn Creamer and the great folks at Carnegie Hall for the opportunity to share this work. Thanks to the many folks [...]

Welcome to the new home of Drew Tanner Photography. This site had been mothballed for a while, but with the advent of a few new projects, I realized it was time to tidy the place up a bit and get ready for company. Please, take a look around, peruse the galleries, and drop me a line. And come back soon; I’ll be adding more of my work as I get my act together. I’ve been so busy working on sites for [...]