Films, chemistry, dozens, perhaps even hundreds of historical photographic processes. Exposure meters, necessities (well, more often unnecessities). Procedures, tips, forgotten bits of knowledge and useful paths that someone had to painfully carve out before us. Things that didn’t fit anywhere else — there is plenty here to dig into.
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Abrupt Albania—sore legs, smelly clutch
A country both beautiful and wild, communal and contradictory. A coastline of glittering golden beaches and indulgence, and at the same time a land of harsh mountain ranges where bears will happily turn you into Ćevapi. A dark and rich history, a bright and even richer future. This, and much more besides, is Shqipëria.
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Greece in square
Marble-clad cities scorched white-hot by the sun. Picturesquely twisted trunks of ancient olive trees, steep canyons, roads seemingly leading from nowhere to nowhere. Countless shores washed by seas, pilgrimage sites hanging as if from the heavens, mountain villages blanketed in slate and the veil of time. None of this captures itself, and like Sisyphus, I pushed uphill not a boulder, but an equally heavy Rolleiflex SL66 - internally dubbed the ‘Greeceflex’ for this mission.
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Impressionism in photography? Do you have it? And could I see it?
Do you have an altar dedicated to impressionism at home? In the smoke of incense sticks, self-portraits by Renoir and Monet look down on you from above, and you go to sleep in the tones of Debussy under The Starry Night? Then I have good news for you—it's not only possible to paint or compose it, but also to photograph it. It's called pictorialism and there's no cure for that.
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Medium format on the neck and Thailand underfoot
A fierce yellow dot is grilling you from above, and you don't know when crocodile, tiger or souvenir seller will jump out of the bushes. We ran out of beer, the roads are winding off into the unknown and scenes from Coppola's Apocalypse Now come to mind. And to top it all off, as if that wasn't enough, you're a photographer.
