Intelligence is the solitary strength of extracting from the chaos of one's own life the handful of light sufficient to illuminate a little further than oneself, towards the other over there, like us lost in the dark. [Christian Bobin, french author]. (2024).
iPhone camera, digital processing, Polaroid i-Type film emulsion lift on watercolor paper.
I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...
Let's try a new format for photography / storytelling.
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Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to have come from the equator. Imagine growing up with no seasons, except 'rain' and 'monsoon' and 'hot' and 'hotter'. Everything around you is green, all year round, never brown. Lush is not just the word they use in magazines about tropical travel, but it's the only world you know.
Image of the day is Spiky, an in-camera double exposure on film.
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Near me there are no cacti large enough that I can use them for textures. On a business trip to Berlin in March, I found a couple of hours to check the Botanical Garden and the desert glasshouse there had these amazing cacti. This is one of the images that came out of it.