*ANNOUNCEMENT*
For the last 3 years, I’ve been quietly photographing storms at Millerton Lake, California using Polaroid Reclaimed Blue, returning to the reservoir again and again while rain, fog, and low clouds slowly dissolved the landscape into something far less stable and familiar. What began as a small experiment gradually became a much larger body of work and after editing down roughly 240 images, I’m excited to finally announce that pre-orders for my new zine, “Where the Water Waits,” are live.
The entire series was made using Polaroid Reclaimed Blue, an experimental monochromatic instant film produced in 2023. The film strips away most descriptive color and transforms the reservoir into something quieter and more uncertain, where water, sky, and land continually collapse into one another. The images became less about documenting a place and more about atmosphere, impermanence, and the instability of our water ecosystems. This project also feels deeply personal because it’s been nearly 7 years since I formally self-published a body of my own photographic work. During that time, so much of my creative energy has gone into building and running Analog Forever Magazine alongside an incredible group of people. AF has become one of the most meaningful parts of my life, but anyone who runs a publication knows how easy it is for your own work to slowly disappear into the background while helping elevate others.
This zine reminded me why I fell in love with publishing in the first place. Before the magazine, before the larger projects, there were zines, small runs, handmade things, sequencing prints on the floor, staying up too late thinking about paper and images and rhythm. In a lot of ways, “Where the Water Waits” feels like a return to that original impulse again, both creatively and philosophically.
Specs: • 5” x 7” • 32 pages • 25 Polaroids • Linen laminate soft cover • Limited to 200 signed & numbered copies • $25 + shipping
Shipping is planned for mid-July. There’s a link in my bio with a link to the pre-order. I hope you’ll pick up a copy.
Thank you all again for the support over the years. It genuinely means the world to me.
Millerton Lake on @polaroid Expired Reclaimed Blue film from my series/zine “Where the Water Waits.” - Due out this Fall.
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Millerton Lake on @polaroid Expired Reclaimed Blue film from my series/zine “Where the Water Waits.” - Due out this Fall. (Or maybe sooner)?
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Another image from my upcoming zine “Where the Water Waits.” - Due out this Fall. (Or maybe sooner)?
📸 @polaroid I2
🎞 @polaroid Reclaimed Blue Film (Expired 2023)
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This is the final new image from my long-running experiments with Polaroid Reclaimed Blue at Millerton Lake, California. Over the last three years I’ve photographed this landscape almost exclusively during storms, working through nearly twenty packs of film while returning again and again to the reservoir in conditions where the horizon begins to dissolve and the water resists certainty, becoming less a landscape than a shifting field of tone, weather, and atmosphere. Now, finally, the film is gone.
Which means it’s time to make the work into a book.
For a long time I’ve carried the idea of returning to the form that first shaped so much of my relationship to photography and publishing, and that process is now taking shape through “Where the Water Waits,” my first zine in seven years. The project gathers the culmination of these storm photographs into a sequence centered on waiting, instability, drought infrastructure, and the strange stillness that exists just before water is redistributed outward through California’s Central Valley.
Design work is currently underway with @buenopower , and over the coming months I’ll be sharing more as sequencing, production, and material decisions continue to evolve. The goal is to have the zine released by October.
Thank you to everyone who has connected with these blue storm images over the years. I’m deeply excited to finally bring them into printed form.
My first month’s Polaroid postcard is in mailboxes around the world via Postal Photos (@postal.photos )! When I first signed up to participate I didn’t know what to expect but once receiving my first envelope, I couldn’t be happier with the quality and process! Postal Photos is an amazing initiative and as we say, PRINT YOUR WORK!
If you missed last month, you have a few weeks to sign up for June’s mailing! It’s cheap, awesome, and well worth it!
Check the link in my bio and sign up today to receive an image from me, some mystic words of wisdom, and a postcard to write back to me or send to a friend!
Thank you to everyone who subscribed last month, can’t wait for you to see what I have in store for June!
Millerton Lake on Expired Polaroid Reclaimed Blue Film. April 2026.
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🎞 @polaroid Reclaimed Blue Film (Expired 2023)
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TOMORROW! Last day to submit to our upcoming online exhibition, “Remnants,” scheduled to debut May 29th, 2026. Curated by Michael Behlen (@michaelbehlen ), Founder of Analog Forever Magazine.
We invite photographic artists working with film and analog processes to submit works that explore loss in its many forms, from the deeply personal to the broadly collective, and to consider what remains in the wake of absence.
Submit by May 1st, 23:59 PT.
Exhibition run date: May 29th.
Submit at /calls-for-entry
Image credit: Lisa Toboz @lisatoboz
Polaroids from Big Creek Road and Huntington Lake during the last storm of the season. April 2026.
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🎞 @polaroid Type 600 Film
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Polaroids from Big Creek Road during the last storm of the season. April 2026.
📸 SX70r
🎞 @polaroid Type 600 Film
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Traveled the path of the 2020 Creek Fire from Shaver Lake to Huntington Lake via dirt Forest Roads during the last storm of the season. Just because the trees are dead doesn’t mean they aren’t beautiful. Which one is your favorite?
📸 @polaroid I2 + 4 Stop GND
🎞 @polaroid Type 600 Film
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Millerton Lake on Expired Polaroid Reclaimed Blue Film. April 2026.
What a crazy abstract image, this one was per luck.
Note: This film is starting to age. This is one of 8 shots that turned out this week. Artifacts, softness, and weird exposure variables are now present from pack to pack. I still have 5 packs left, but I doubt it will rain heavy enough again at this location soon to continue the series. The remaining packs sre safely stored in the fridge but at this point, I am pretty sure I’ll be forced to shoot them all this winter, if they still work. 🤞
📸 @polaroid I2
🎞 @polaroid Reclaimed Blue Film (Expired 2023)
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