“In this day and age of digital where it is so easy to just shoot thousands of pictures in a day, each individual picture becomes rather insignificant. Whereas, with the tin type, it’s very intentional and you’re not gonna make very many in a day. They become valued objects, not just an image.”

Sweet mini-doc about John Coffer, a traveling wet plate artist who lives in a cabin in upstate New York. Coffer blends old and new technologies in a way in which he can maintain complete comfort and control in his lifestyle.

Part of Lost & Found Films series This Must Be the Place — a series of shorts that explore the idea of home.