The Power of Nostalgia in Photography
Photography sells itself as preservation. We take pictures to capture moments, to remember what happened, to hold onto people and places before…
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New Year, New Job The Return (Lyon Tavellog #2)
When I left Lyon, it started to snow. Not completely uncommon here (at home we call it the frozen East), but not…
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Camera Fascination
Some of us maintain that gear doesn’t matter. And technically, we’re right: a camera won’t make you a better photographer. But there…
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Recording Time Through Damage
Photography typically tries to stop time. We capture moments, freeze them, extract them from the flow of duration. But there’s another approach…
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New Year, New Job (Lyon Tavellog #1)
At the end of 2025, I quit my job of 5 years and looked for a new one. I don’t change job…
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Is 2026 the Year of Uniformity?
Is this what New Year on social media looks like? I’ve never spent New Year waching social media before. Substack is new…
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Serious = Suspicious
Like me, you’ve probably carried both phones and proper cameras through countless streets, events, and gatherings, and the difference in people’s reactions…
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Become a Good Photographer, Step Five: Explain Things To Yourself
I’ve always tried to understand things: how objects are built (I was the kind of kid that wanted to understand how his…
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Individuals Do Not Matter
When I was a kid, I read all the Foundation extended universe books. One per day, I was obsessed. Not just because…
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Surprise Is the Soul of Photography
As a viewer of photography, when I look back at the images that truly stay with me, they almost always contain something…
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