EXPOSE
Hand-metered, mostly wide open. One roll might cover a whole afternoon — thirty-six frames is a budget that teaches patience.
EST. FROM A DRAWER OF OLD CAMERAS
THE
LATENT
IMAGE
Developed slowly, on purpose.
EST. FROM A DRAWER OF OLD CAMERAS
Developed slowly, on purpose.
01 — THE NEGATIVE
A latent image is the picture already present on the film the instant after exposure — there, but unseen, waiting for the developer. These frames were made on cameras that were my grandfather's before they were mine: glass and brass mostly older than 1970, still resolving light exactly as it was taught to. I shoot film only, almost always in black and white, because grain is not noise — it is the texture of memory.
Twelve frames in black & white. Move through them as you would a contact sheet. See the color work →
02 — THE DARKROOM
Hand-metered, mostly wide open. One roll might cover a whole afternoon — thirty-six frames is a budget that teaches patience.
Tri-X and HP5 in the same tank my grandfather used, agitated by the clock, temperature held by feel. The grain is left where it falls.
Scanned from the negative at full tonal depth — no clarity sliders, no smoothing. What you see is silver, not pixels pretending to be silver.