Biography: Tintypes - modern, Hand painted photographs, Pinholes, Salt prints
Rebecca Sexton Larson, from Tampa, Florida, USA, makes tintypes set in beautiful handmade cases. She also shows her hand-painted black and white pinholes.
Rebecca Sexton Larson is a Tampa based studio artist working with alternative photographic processes. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a degree in Fine Arts and Mass Communications. She was awarded Florida Individual Artist Fellowships in 1998, 2002, and 2008. In 2006, she received an Artist Enhancement Grant from the State of Florida and, in 2005, was commissioned by the City of Tampa to be its Photographer Laureate for a year.
During the past 15 years, Sexton Larson has taught, lectured and exhibited work nationally at various arts institutions and organizations.
Sexton Larson's photographs are in numerous major collections throughout the country, including: Polaroid, Progressive Corporate Art, Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Holland and Knight Law Firm, Polk Museum of Art, and the Tampa Museum of Art.
Sexton Larson’s work is featured in the book, Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner.
"My current body of work was created using black and white silver prints produced from various types of pinhole cameras"