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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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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Playing With Old DSLRs
Photographers are split into two groups: those who swear by their gear and upgrade to the latest of everything all the time,…
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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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Photography Doesn’t Have an AI Problem
A lot of photographers talk about AI like it’s the enemy. They’re furious about it: AI generates images that never existed, requires…
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Taking the sun
I took this photo in Paris on a November early morning. I published it in a note previously, but I thought it…
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Photography Is a Solitary Process
For me, photography is a deeply solitary process. It’s not something I do in the company of others, nor in groups, and…
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