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Summers Ends

📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Nikon Nikkor SW 90mm f/4.5 // 🎞️: Kodak TXP320 🧪: Xtol 1:1

#4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #stilllife #summer

A dried arrangement of sorghum and eucalyptus sits half-illuminated and soft on a glassy black precipice backgrounded by gray gradient shifting quickly from light to black lower left to top right as woven goods and berry baskets barely escape the encroaching shadows.
September 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
an.empty.photo
Forever a legend in my mind

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor ?? 200mm) // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor? it mostly looked… bad)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture
A funky 60s or 70s building is dappled AF by soft shadows from distant shores. The buildings second-story facade is an uneven rectilinear grid filled within seemingly random colors and an amazingly vague (if extant) periodicity with the greatest consistency attained by a single cours of transparent windows within which a grey-brown patterning emerges from the flattened dimmed office interior, and unoccupied.
July 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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run from the sun

📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Nikon Nikkor SW 90mm f/4.5 // 🎞️: Film Washi E (ISO 3) // ☀️: 8 minutes at f/64 // 🧪: Rodinal 1:100

#4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #experimental

a long exposure image of deeply rutted gravel alley where most greens fade to white and everything crunches, brittle under the influence of the unrelenting and unrestrainable sun
July 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
an.empty.photo
there is a casual violence to time

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Eastman Double-X (pulled -1 in Xtol)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #abstract #art @photos.bsky.art
a grayscale pastiche of architectural elements and a crumbling rose
July 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
an.empty.photo
No one comes through here

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #newtopographics #graffiti @bsky.art
A black and white photograph of a doorway shaded from the left: the front step bears a totemic scrawl of a monstrous face, minor grafitos have left their inscriptions on the brick and glass and contributed their little pieces to the collage texture framing two screen doors shut forever, and, screwed shut tight over locked shop doors of a Reagan vintage and host to the centerpiece of the image, an unaddressed inscription: “HATE ME MORE+MORE” The author of which, in disciplined dispassion or in red hot emotions disregarded the multifaceted topology of their canvas interleaving text with three or more layers of screen and door and glass and blinds.
July 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Noonday Demon No. 2

📸: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Eastman Double-X (pulled -1 in Xtol)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture #urban #newtopographics #shadow #lightandshadow #noir #neonoir
A rain-slicked sidewalk slides upward into gray skies, crowded by hundred year-old brickwork and on-street parking buffered by a thin row of barren trees. Steam gushes from a vent while a dark figure central to the image cresting the damp sidewalk approaches or departs, an indistinct silhouette.
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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***Noonday Demon***

📸: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Eastman Double-X (pulled -1 in Xtol)

📷: Minolta SRT202 // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor?)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture #urban #newtopographics #shadow #lightandshadow
An alligatored street gives way to gravel road under a flat grey sky carved up by power lines, a dark figure central to the image squarely in the gravel approaches or departs, an indistinct silhouette.
July 6, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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it got so quiet

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor?)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture #urban #newtopographics #shadow #lightandshadow
an abandoned copy of the vision times layers at the base of adventuring stairs side lit by midday southern sunlight, giant doors loom cloaked in chiaroscuro and sutured shut foreclosing on a past filled with innumerable footsteps, “has the city at last lost relevance” some may ask without ever stepping foot on empty stairs or seeking empty silent spaces
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Unilateral Cataract

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor?)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #freelensing
A color photograph looking through interior French doors toward a room with a checked floor, only a thin strip is in focus even though it is coplanar with much which has fallen out of focus.
May 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Curtain call

📷: Olympus Stylus 120 // 🎞️: Rollei RPX 100 // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #abstract
A black and white photograph emblazoned 21 12:08 showing a corrugation furred by clouds, a tulip vibrates at hypersonic speeds
May 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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deathly clear

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #skull #decay #goth
A front three quarters view of a cow skull propped against a fence post weathered and showing the topology of its sutures and the structure of its fibers decayed under years of rain. Even bone rots.
May 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Every evening (endless months)

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #filth #grime #tree #asphalt #goth #abstract #icm
Stumbling over rain-slicked asphalt the air is thick and wet but breathable; rain pounds embracing every seam drips banding together into streams seamlessly slipping the one way through thread gaps and moss cracks dripping down from the trees. It’s so hard to see: it’s the murk, things started falling in years ago and this is what remains inviolate, unchanged and still puissant and pure.
April 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Enclosure

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #filth #grime #bamboo
Lost in a bamboo forest and blinded by the glaring sun recognition slowly flares that the stalks are streaks and the streaks are rivers carved through the grime of the city settling endlessly on a forgotten courtyard enclosed in lexan.
April 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Morning on uneven ground

📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1

#35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #trees
Shadows grown long in sharp morning light softened by thin fog stretch across velveteen grass clumped on a drowsy hillock lead back to the tortuous trunk of an old oak tree as a cyclone fence dives precipitously into the ground behind.
April 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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the sun sets

📸: Minolta SRT??? // 🎞️: Harman Phoenix

#grain #35mm #film #photography #art #night
A color photograph cast green and yellow in low sodium light, dark shrubbery forms a cloudy occlusion of a banal street scene of power pole, power line, traffic control system, and a fading grey cloudy sky.
January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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one deep breath

🎞️: Bergger Pancro (somewhat X ray fogged) // 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🧪: XTol Stock (old and cold)

#35mm #neonoir #grime #analog #film #car #decay #photography #art
A grainy black and white photograph of the rear tailgate of a vehicle, more than thirty years old, street-parked and unwashed for most of it. Rain-drenched and coated in algae, microbial tears stream cross its surface topology, the dead layers of past generations blacken having finally lost their war against oxygen. “4.0 litres,” reads the one visible badge: approximately the same volume as one deep breath.
January 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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like a dream on a spring night

📷: Minolta SRT101 // 🎞️: Ferrania P33 // 🧪: Rodinal 1:100 semi-stand

#35mm #analog #film #photography #decay #art
A black and white photograph of layered shades of gray interesecting with the chamfered window rubber gaskets around the window of a decrepit train. The greys, in their sheen, disrupted and discontinuous from indelicate and hasty restriping from innumerable repairs. The whites spallated with spiderwebbed gunshot-cracks where iron oxide protrudes in all-consuming blackness. Through the window divided by highlights from without and the handhold frameworks and windows of the otherside from within a shadowed figure slumps forward in a vinyl seat (unseen) as the time comes for the train to pull away.
January 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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It’s a damp magic in this place.

📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar 210mm //🎞️ Kodak Tri-x 320 // 🧪: 510 Pyro

#4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #landscape
A full 4x5 inch negative shows its inky border rebate marks: Kodak 320TXP, the image sticks its ears out showing a rippling seasonal pond in a spot of plains land reemerging from dumpy servitude. A monumental structure rises in the horizon before the trees, an arch, some decking, in memory of what or to what end? Its inscrutable mass reflects in the pond beneath a sky boiling with clouds, both unaccountable to the present day.
January 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Vacant

🎞️: Bergger Pancro (somewhat X ray fogged) // 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🧪: XTol Stock (old and cold)

#35mm #reflection #neonoir #architectural #analog #film #photography #art
A grainy black and white photograph filled with glass reflecting indistinct sidewalk scenes covering (and covered in) shadows and highlights cast by unseen structures with geometries anonymized by distortion as they blend with the interior: a bench, a potted parlor palm, other things all flattened by shadows and rarely caressed by light. The text on the door reads “Fifth Avenue Building”; and that’s all there is, there’s nothing here.
January 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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It was a reach

📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach Technika Symmar 150mm f/ 5.6 //🎞️ Kodak Tri-x 320 // 🧪: 510 Pyro

#4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #happynewyear
A black and white photograph of a typewriter, Hermes 2000, sits atop a circular table before a mirror. On the table lays a pen, some typed pages, sized A5, a chthonic shot glass, a mirror, a vase filled with dried flowers and seed pods, a pile of papers and books, and cloth. The typewriter is near the end of its margin, the carriage shifted far to the left. A typed page sits in the typewriter, dated December 27th, 2034. The text begins “A typewriter, Hermes 2000, sits atop…”
January 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Vertebrae

🎞️: Bergger Pancro (somewhat X ray fogged) // 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🧪: XTol Stock (old and cold)

#35mm #abstract #architectural #analog #film #photography #art
A black and white abstract photograph: glowing white vertebrae bisect a canvas transected by long shadows as the quiet roar of an echoing depth falls below (or does it soar above)? Lost, again. Most likely somewhere.
December 27, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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The paper sky began to peel back

🎞️: Film Washi W // 📸: K.B. Canham 4x5 with Schneider Kreuznach 210mm APO-symmar

#largeformat #analog #4x5 #papernegative #longexposure #photography #art
A sheet of washi paper painted with a silver halide emulsion and exposed for several seconds to a busy intersection shows its flaws with a ghosted car and a fading edge where light leaked in. The papers texture is evident and the road goes on forever down the center of the photograph; cut off from the sky by an overpass the trees fade into the white and wrinkled sky that has begun to pull away.
December 23, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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I’ve spent my life here

📸: Minolta SRT202 (55mm Rokkor PF f/1.8) // 🎞️: Eastman 5222 Double-X (EI 500)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #abstract #art
A black and white photograph of no commercial or utilitarian value displays the organic pastiche created by multiple shadows, reflections and blurs in the moments where the common objects in an urban environment conspire to confuse and converge in calamity.
December 19, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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The sun is setting on this block.

📸: Minolta SRT202 (55mm Rokkor PF f/1.8) // 🎞️: Eastman 5222 Double-X (EI 500)

#35mm #analog #film #photography #graffiti #art
A black and white photograph of a barred window swabbed with the interlocking paint of many individual graffiti tags; most prominently MOTHER, each tag excoriated individually and in concert by time, rivals, opponents, and deeply inscribed by the shadows of a setting sun on a saddened tenement block.
December 18, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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It was so warm, it was perfect

🎞️: Kodak ColorPlus // 📸: Minolta SRT202

#tropical #summer #freelensing #35mm #analog #film #photography #art
A color photograph blurred and hazy, a memory faded from being out in the sun too long drenched in Imperial beer and scrubbed by sand. A rocky headland rises jagged above the turquoise pacific and is garnished finally by jungle. The humidity embraces you; there’s laughter in the distance; you feel no pain as the boat rocks in the delicate waves. You begin to drift off to sleep, what is it to wake?
December 12, 2024 at 12:52 AM