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.
View full roll →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.
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.
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.
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.
Coming soon →