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 that I create my images are not subject to algorithms and forced into an unnatural format that caters to smartphones in an ad-splattered, unending 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 medium and large format, and was even doing wet plate collodion for several years (the Facebook group Collodion Bastards is my creation), but will occasionally use a digital camera (Fuji X100V, X-E5) in certain contexts. 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.
P.S. You can find digital streams of photos I feel like sharing online at the anti-Instagram platforms foto and pixelfed.