The magnificence of photography is in writing moments and people. And being the one behind the camera often means your portrait is not taken. And that’s a b of a bummer.
So I took the matter into my own hands and got a camera cable release and experimented a first series of auto portraits on my Hasselblad 500C loaded with a black and white film stock, @ilfordphoto Delta 3200. I really enjoy the tension that it inherently carries: insane contrast, massive grain. There’s something honest about this friction.
@nicefilmclub is my office neighbor and turned around the scans quickly. Seeing those frames come back felt like finally stepping into my own work.
More to come.
New Yorkers.
Relentless. Ruthless.
Kind to strangers. Tough to everyone else.
One day she beats you down, the other she gives it all.
One of them since 2015.
Bring it on.
Something Hitchcockian. My two divinities. Black sand beach in San Francisco. Front, then back. A distant look through the Fairmont’s window.
#sanfrancisco #hasselblad500cm #ektachromee100 #kodak
Coast to coast. Ice to sand. An celebratory escape with and for @houseofreagan.nyc
Shot on #hasselblad500cm #kodakportra400 and #kodakechtachrome100. Developed and scanned by @nicefilmclub
I usually start my year over in September after the summer break. But I’ll take this moment as a good time to share personal reflections.
This years was definitely a milestone, and like every pivotal moment in existence, it’s made of ecstasy and tragedy, cloaked in a spectrum of nuance.
The first half of the year, I was battling my inner struggles: lack of focus, sloth, gluttony, envy. I fought it hard to close a couple of deals with myself: ran Brooklyn half-marathon after smoking for 15 years (inconceivable), learned how to drive and road-tripped in grandiose California, and finally went to a recording studio to give life to what once was just a thought.
The second half of the year began at the end of a consuming implosion. It allowed me to distinguish my friends and my fiends with great clarity. I’m thankful for all of them as they showed me the ego to embrace, and the ego to bury.
This liberation is paving the way to a loving marriage, offering the confidence to release my album, and gathering the stamina to grow my company to its adult size.
Everything is a dream or an intention, surrounded by my families, in the city I hate to love.
Here’s to a new year of revolution.
