Jolene Lupo is a New York City-based photographer specializing in the wet plate collodion process. Her work explores themes of death, memory, and identification.

Lupo received her BFA in Photography, from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Largely informed by the years she spent managing Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Studio, her work is process-based with an emphasis on physicality and material. She has led numerous panel discussions on the relevance of analog photography in the digital age and hosted tintype portrait events across NYC and abroad.

Currently, she works as a Senior Photographer at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner and teaches workshops in wet plate collodion at Penumbra Foundation. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Metro, and Caitlin Doughty’s Ask A Mortician video series.