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Roll 01 — Raglan
May 2026
Whaingaroa Harbour Kodak Gold 200
Raglan harbour
E27 Tidal lagoon, drowned river valley Film
Raglan portrait frame
Raglan portrait frame
Raglan landscape
E01 Light bleed, warm shift Film
Raglan detail
Raglan surf
Raglan road
Raglan wide frame
E36 End of roll, Raglan coastline Panoramic
Roll notes Olympus Trip 35 · f/2.8

Kodak Gold 200, expired 2005. The warm shift on this stock is more pronounced than the last roll — probably because the seal on the canister was loose when I received it. Third frame has a light bleed I caused by scraping the seal while loading in low light. Accidentally made it better.

Developed at home. Scans arrived via post from the lab in Wellington. Surprised by the contrast holding as well as it did.

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On Smallness Photographic series
May 2026
One sustained inquiry into the ordinary iPhone 17

Through ten monochrome images, the work forms a sustained inquiry into attention, duration, and place — proposing that the minor subject is not a consolation for the absence of spectacle, but the site where photographic meaning is most precisely made.

Auckland, Coromandel & Raglan, NZ · Feb – May 2026 · Series + Statement + Mini book
On Smallness 01
On Smallness 03
On Smallness 06
On Smallness 09
Unfinished Sentences Pottery · 2024–2026
Ongoing
Three pieces that didn't get finished Greenware

And which I've stopped trying to decide about.

Not failed. Not abandoned. Just mid-thought. Fully dried, going nowhere. Occasionally I consider returning one to water. Mostly I just live alongside them.

Pinch & coil · Home studio · 3 pieces, unfired
Hand-built clay
Hand-built clay
Instax Prints Wide + Mini archive
2025–

Digital negatives printed on the Instax Wide Link or Instax LiPlay. Some go on the wall. Some go in envelopes. Some go in corners of books and notebooks.

Tactile, nostalgic, analog.

Recent selects Instax Wide Link
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Junk Journal Selected pages
Ongoing

Collage, scraps, things kept.

Pages from an ongoing junk journal — printed photographs, found paper, tape, ephemera. Selected spreads scanned and posted here when they feel done enough.

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Auckland, New Zealand
Updated 30 May 2026
Raglan roll · Scans arrived
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