From a café table, passing figures appear between reflected lamps and the furniture inside. A short study of the pictures that form when the glass separating the room from the street becomes visible.
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Photography
Portraits, street scenes, and the choices inside a frame. Essays on making photographs, reading them, and spending time with the details a first look can miss.
The stories
A window gives the same room a different set of conditions every hour. Following a small studio arrangement through an afternoon, with attention to the reflections and shadows that keep refusing to stay in place.
A still life begins to change before another object enters the frame. Moving a bottle, lowering the camera, or leaving more room beside a bowl can alter the whole arrangement. Notes from a tabletop where small adjustments remain visible.
A lowered gaze, a turn away, and a direct look at the camera give three portraits different places in a sequence. Returning to the images at home, I follow their shared orange palette and the small changes of angle.
After a trip, the photographs arrive in the order they were taken. Making a series means trying other orders, changing the scale, and deciding which frames can carry a memory without requiring its whole explanation.
A pale piece of cloth interrupts a studio portrait, making one part of a face clear and another diffuse. Looking at its folds raises a question about how much a visible surface lets us know.