Stefan Sappert | Celebrity & Fashion Photographer

Stefan Sappert creates high-end portraits and campaigns for celebrities, brands, fashion and the entertainment world.
He works with both cutting-edge digital production and the 19th-century wet plate collodion process -
selecting the medium to suit the project, the story, the personality, the brand.

In a world of infinite edits and flawless filters, Stefan works in a medium where every choice is permanent -
and every moment is final.  Using the rare 19th-century wet plate collodion process, he creates singular portraits on glass, crafted entirely by hand in silver.

A plate is coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed within minutes.
The result: one image. No duplicates. No retouching. No digital safety net—only chemistry, light, and instinct.

Each plate carries textures that can’t be manufactured: silver swirls, soft blurs, subtle flaws that become part of the image’s voice. These are not mistakes, but the fingerprints of the moment—proof of something handmade, and therefore human.

For Stefan, this isn’t nostalgia. It’s a living dialogue between eras, materials, and emotions. A way to tell unique stories and make photographs that don’t just exist in time, but outlast it.

From lens to silver: take a look inside the craft behind each portrait

photographic setup with
portable darkroom and
wooden large format camera