Ryan Scheer

Ryan Scheer is a photographer specializing in historic processes, including wet plate collodion (tintype), medium format, and large format photography. His work begins not with a camera, but with the construction of entire worlds.

Raised in the landscapes of rural Colorado ranches, where his imagination flourished, Scheer builds intricate dioramas and hand-sculpted figures that become the subjects of his photographs. Using a combination of fabricated elements and materials gathered from the land—dirt, weeds, and stone—he creates scenes that feel both intimate and expansive, like fragments of a place remembered rather than observed.