People often seem distant when they sit there with their phones, disconnected, maybe even ignorant.
What we usually don't see is what they are looking at. It's easy to forget that who seems to be under the spell of their glowing screen is sometimes just connecting to someone else, sending a short wish, showing someone they care - maybe even to make sure that they have their peace of mind to be fully there for us after they put it down.
(The man in this picture is an old Taiwanese gentleman who now works as a driver and guide to show visitors the beauty of the island. In the moment I took the picture, he texted his wife that he'll be home soon - before sharing more stories from his life with us. Only few edits, the backlight of the car, the cigarette and the phone did enough of their magic.)
I'm very excited to show you one of my first medium format photos that I took with my 70-year-old folding camera! In the photo, my wife with our over 18-year-old dog. 🥰 📷
Gear:
• Beier Beirax II (Germany, ~1953)
• E. Ludwig Meritar 105 mm f/4.5
• Ilford XP2 Super 400
untitled portrait, series my least favorite life, inspired by a song by lera lynn:
”this is my least favorite life
the one where you fly and i don’t .
a kiss holds a million deceits
and a lifetime goes up in smoke.“
soleil noir, portrait series, based on the memory of a chanson by damien saez:
« je serai avec toi, soleil noir d'orage, de sagesse est la rage.
à chacun de tes pas, je serai avec toi.
pour le mal que tu m'as fait;
pour le mal que je te ferai... »
Hopefully I'll be able to wrap up some of my pending work and focus on the latest feature I shot. Met a genuinely nice car collector a few days ago. He has about a hundred cars and nearly each of those is worth photographing individually. Anyway, here's a photo of the man himself.