I've been thinking lately about why it is I like the historical photography and processes so much. You know, I have to ask myself, “is it just that these old pictures are the ones I grew up with and so they are familiar to me?”  I learned about them in art school, admired them forever so they are familiar and comfortable, and that is probably part of it. But I feel like it is more than that for me, historical process photography is a complete universe of materials and equipment, everything has a history. I recently outfitted a letterpress studio at my house to satisfy this desire I've had to make things that include my photographs and words in books and broadsides. The thing that I find interesting about this new to me equipment, the printing press, a Chandler & Price was made in 1904, and the Challenge guillotine paper cutter was made in 1889.  This old cast-iron equipment is heavy and complicated yet works every bit as well today as it did at the time it was made. I find that absolutely  amazing, I wonder to myself how many hands, how many people and how many pictures and prints and postcards and whatever people made with these things have passed through them. Don't even get me started talking about the cases of type and how these letters have spelled out the dreams and desires of so many people before, and now it is my turn. I feel like my work gets imbued with a bit of all of this history and I love it.