Smid crafts his original photographs using traditional darkroom methods with no digital post-production.

With a photo enlarger, he directs light over the negative through a high-quality optic to project the image onto a coated sheet of silver emulsion.

He then processes the paper by hand, through a series of developing and clearing baths, to form and stabilize the latent image onto the print.

His black and white photographs are then selenium-toned as a final step to extend the archival life of the artwork for up to 200 years.