Kari Orvik is a Bay Area-based photographer from Alaska. She works with the historic wet plate collodion process both inside and outside of the studio. She runs a tintype portrait studio, teaches photography, and produces many works of fine art which have been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, SomArts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts, where she was a graduate fellow. She received an MFA from UC Berkeley and grants through the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

In this episode, we talk about the debt hole, the wet plate process, her experiences at various residencies, teaching photography to college students of all ages and socioeconomic statuses, specific tensions in the Bay Area, how social work led to her photography career, and more.

[Read more in the show notes](http://theprocess.co/kari-orvik-photographer-interview/).