Creative Resistance Captured in Tintype: Immortalizing Art as Activism

In this exhibition, large format photographer Alex Lippert presents a series of intimate tintype portraits created using the mid-1800s wet plate collodion process, a slow and deliberate photographic method that mirrors the persistence of creative resistance itself. Working with artists from Cincinnati and the surrounding regions, Lippert combines in-depth interviews with handcrafted tintypes to explore how different and sometimes unexpected art functions as a tool for community building, cultural memory, and protest.

The project centers on artists whose practices often challenge oppression, confront injustice, disrupt capitalist norms, and catalyze social change, revealing the intersection between personal creative resistance and collective action. While acknowledging that art may not always yield immediate political outcomes, the exhibition emphasizes its enduring power to foster empathy, preserve stories of resistance, and reimagine possibilities for justice through shared cultural experience.