article_snippet: Among Mr Martin 500 portraits is a photo of musician Gruff Rhys (left) from Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals .
article_snippet: Resurrecting early art-form: Mr Martin is currently working on a project using the technique and hopes the technique will encourage others to have a go .
article_snippet: After repairing Mr Martin's project Mr Martin spent a day with Sean Mackenna, a tintype expert who had honed Mr Martin skills at Civil War re-enactments, learning the technique.
article_snippet: Mr Martin has now taken pictures of about 500 people, using about 1,000 plates and hopes to exhibition about 500 people and possibly even make a book.
article_snippet: I got in touch with this guy in London who was one of the first to resurrect the process in the UK back in the 1990s and asked if Mr Martin would mind showing me the process. '
article_snippet: I went down to London and spent the day talking about how the process works, shot a few plates and Mr Martin sent me on my way with a lot of 1850s reading material.
highlights_snippet: Andy Martin is trying to resurrect 150-year-old art form and says it's far more interesting than using a camera phone .