For over two decades, visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has been creating a sustained body of work, mostly concentrated within the historic processes employing nineteenth-century photography techniques that are no longer commercially available. Hamilton has produced a unique collection using methodologies like gum bichromate forms, platinum, and collodion ambrotypes on black glass, French variants of paper calotypy and of course the embellished cyanotype.Brenton Hamilton is a well-known mentor, teacher on the campus of Maine Media Workshops, and a leading educator and historian. His photographs are widely collected and exhibited internationally and held in numerous permanent collections at: the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, the Portland Museum ofArt, Portland, Maine, the University of New England, and the Lamar Dodd Art Center in Georgia.