This website is in response to the question I often get from those I meet when out and about with one of my conspicuous film cameras: “Do you have a website of your photography?” This question typically comes after “What’s your Instagram?” to which I always reply “I don’t do Instagram.” I really don’t do photography websites either, but at least with a website images aren’t subject to algorithms and forced into a format that caters to smartphones in an ad-splattered, endless stream of slop and clutter just for the hopes of getting an ephemeral two-second glimpse and a like. What’s the point of that?
I’m committed to analog photography, from 35mm to large format, and have even done wet plate collodion (the Facebook group Collodion Bastards is my creation), but will occasionally use a digital camera (Fuji X100V, X-E5). I especially enjoy doing panoramic, pinholes, and panoramic pinholes, but range pretty broadly in subject matter, camera, and format. I don’t scan every negative; rather, I’ll do darkroom prints of those I truly like and scan those that I think are worth sharing online. There is a certain perversity of shooting film only to digitize it and I’m trying to be less perverse.
You can find photos I perversely digitize on the anti-Instagram platforms foto and pixelfed.