The first independent FLUX_001 issues are now live. These were generated directly through the FLUX system: Shoot → Select → Sequence → Publish → Move on
No heavy editing. No perfectionism. No delay.
Just photography flowing in real time into physical form.
FLUX_001 — Dimitri_Wessendorf
Date Range: 2026-05-04 → 2026-05-08
A raw monochrome visual diary produced through the FLUX methodology.
No point in sweating the details, the small stuff, being caught up in thought, over analyzing everything . Just retard max. Walk around barefoot drinking raw milk, and jump on a fire hydrant.. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a serious photographer who’s critically analyzing everything, so deep and thought, over analyzing and never actually doing. Wondering about paper choice and wall space and who’s gonna validate what they do. I say fuck that. Let the chips fall as they may. Build your cathedral, brick by brick, just to tear that shit down again each day. 
300 Spartans, 300 publications,
So I just stepped away from the computer. Been pacing back-and-forth throughout my living room playing with Claude code and designing infrastructure to automate my entire photography publication, distribution, and archival workflow.  my frustration with the medium is how slow this thing is. And so the embrace of small JPEG, high contrast, workflow, compact cameras, has proven to be the only thing that can keep up with me. And so now, the main frustration is, when you have a hard drive of close to half a million photos and 15,000 photographs that you selected and put aside, do you really want to sit around and waste all of your time dwelling on the images?
Beyond good and bad
Notions of what makes or breaks a good or bad frame is extremely uninteresting to me. The reason being, is that I’ve already mastered photography. I know what it takes to get to the point where you can effectively make great frames over and over again all over the world. And so it became extremely boring and repetitive to me. And whatever Picasso said is 100% correct. He learned a master painting like Rafael, and then spent the rest of his life learning to paint like a child. I feel like the way forward is endlessly, returning to the childlike state, today one every single day, never mastering photography. I wanna be an amateur forever!
And right now what I’m doing is, fucking insane. I’ve designed a whole system around my practice from the ground up. From the way that I shoot, my philosophy, technique, approach, settings, everything in between. The one missing piece, is the distribution and publication. And so I decided OK I’ll use blurb, I’ve used it before, it was cool. It works and it’s easy enough. But even that, adds friction. Having to sit around and dwell on a sequence and contrive some sort of narrative doesn’t make any difference for me. I’m gonna be out the next day shooting 1000 frames and so who fucking cares about the photos I made yesterday. I’m not gonna sit around on my weekends looking at photos and making sequences. It’s absurd to me. Uninteresting. Basic and for the Normie‘s.
Everything in flux
My entire philosophy arrived 3 1/2 years ago when I realized that photography is endless. The way the light is always changing, and the way that life is out of my control, allows for infinite possibility within the medium of photography. You can never make the same photograph twice. And so as I began photographing with this streamlined workflow, I started to pile up stacks and stacks of pictures extremely quickly. What I would do is, shoot 1000 pictures a day, come home call through the photos and just upload them directly to my blog each day. It made sense and has become a ritual for me. Shoot, cull, published, move on.  I also really enjoyed looking at my photographs chronologically in sequences this way day by day month my month year by year. I find chronology and the passage of time to be very very interesting in terms of photography and actually creating sequences in chronology just make complete sense to me. Each photograph is merely a fragment of time. You could argue that the photograph exists outside the passage of time, but what happens when you actually stamp it within real time?
Techno futurist future
I started to play with extracting the Meta data from my files. Gathering the timeline in a CSV file. I upload everything to a website, flux.dantesisofo.com - create a timeline feature. And now browse my work by day a month by month.  it’s a very nice way of looking at the work this way as a stream in a timeline it’s just satisfying to me. But it’s time to upgrade. I’ve created a full pipeline. From shooting to publishing. Flux. You come home your dragon and drop your photos into a folder after making your selections. You then simply run a simple script command copy command P enter.  all files are uploaded to the archive online, everything is viewable downloadable. Another missing piece, the physical publication of this thing. And so when you go to upload, the script automatically determines when you have 50 new photographs ready for a publication. It organizes everything, titles, the work in sequence, flux_065 for example, and each photograph is sequence chronologically in order with captions with the date, time stamp and name. At the back of the PDF you have a viewable contact sheet and manifest document that is a one-to-one reference to the actual digital archive. There’s a QR code that you scan  that will then take you to the digital publication of that exact issue where you can download the original JPEG files. So now I’m walking around waiting for my Claude code to finish doing what it’s doing, and finish generating 304 publications.
## Shoot, print, staple
Everything open source. Instantly transferable. 10 MB PDF files. 28 sheets of paper, 50 images, double sided, 8 1/2 x 11 paper,. Simply print or PDF, stack up 28 sheets, staple, and enjoy. Doesn’t matter if you have a shitty printer, good printer, just use your basic office, printer at home and enjoy the work for free. The aesthetic qualities of the high contrast to workflow with these kind of LaserJet monochrome printers I was fucking beautiful. The imperfections actually make it more interesting. And the other thing, I even compressed my small JPEG even further, so the quality is reduced. But I find it to be fascinating. I’m just dreaming everything to pure simplicity and speed. Where I can now just keep going, keep shooting, come home, select my photos, instantly archive and publish a physical book daily.  no gatekeepers, no self publishing software or in design or print on demand bullshit.
The aesthetics of the physical object becomes bureaucratic. Simple mono space text. And I store them in manila folders. A living breathing archive. Ephemeral, reproducible, distributable, open and accessible, imperfect, because it’s not supposed to be. Rip out the pages, rearrange different PDFs however you want. The whole system is plug-in play. Do you wanna put on a show? Print out a PDF, take a piece of tape, and tape up 10 pictures to a wall somewhere. There’s your show.
I’m still working and tinkering and almost finished with my concept. Once it’s launched, just look for flux. 
Beginner’s Mind Photography (Why Thinking Less Changes Everything)
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.
Today I’m thinking about beginner’s mind photography and why this mindset shift can completely transform your practice.
I’ve been practicing street photography for over a decade now. But over the past three and a half years, I’ve really honed in on something different — practicing with a limitless mindset.
When you think of a beginner, you think of a child.
They have infinite potential to learn and grow.
And so by forgetting everything I think I know — all the preconceived notions about what I should photograph, where I should go, or what “street photography” even is — I’ve unlocked entirely new ways of seeing.
Unlearning Through Photography
At this point, after so much consistency, I feel like the real work is to empty my mind.
Through photography, I’m unlearning.
And through that act of unlearning, I discover new things.
The goal is simple: stay curious.
When you wake up in the morning, remember that.
Stay curious. Stay enthusiastic about life.
And photography will come naturally.
Finding Beauty in the Mundane
I can be on a completely mundane street — nothing “interesting” at all — and still make a ton of photographs.
Why?
Because I slow down.
I pick up a leaf. I look at it closely. I study the veins, the way it carries life, the way light passes through it.
And suddenly…
I start photographing.
Not thinking. Just observing.
Just responding.
Shooting From Instinct
At a certain point, you stop thinking altogether.
You start photographing from your subconscious mind.
You’re not analyzing.
You’re not trying to be clever.
You’re just reacting.
And over time, with consistency compounding, your instinct sharpens.
And eventually…
Your style emerges.
You Can’t Force Style
Style isn’t something you hack.
It’s not an aesthetic trick.
It’s not presets or formulas.
It’s something that arises naturally from doing the work.
From showing up every day.
From making photographs from a blank slate.
From being a beginner — forever.
Flow State Is the Goal
To me, the peak experience in life is being in a flow state.
Fully present. Fully engaged. Creating.
And then later, when you look back at your work, you actually enjoy it — because you know it came from a pure place.
You weren’t forcing anything. You were just being.
Explore Without Labels
Forget “street photography.”
Even though my channel is literally @streetphotography — which is still wild to me — I’m telling you:
Let go of the label.
Go explore your city. Your town. Your neighborhood.
Without expectations.
Without rules.
Without trying to fit into a category.
Because the best work?
It comes from your subconscious.
Let the Work Reveal Itself
When I look back over the past few years — especially shooting in black and white — the sequences, the books, the stories…
They all emerged naturally.
Nothing was forced.
There’s something powerful about surrendering to the medium.
You just show up.
Follow the light.
Make photographs.
And over time — months, years, a lifetime — you build something meaningful.
Brick by brick.
Treat Every Day Like Day One
Each morning, wake up like it’s your first day.
Forget yesterday.
Don’t worry about tomorrow.
Just go out and affirm life through the shutter.
Make something new.
Play.
That spirit of play — that’s where authenticity lives.
Stop Thinking. Start Shooting.
That’s it.
That’s the idea.
When you’re out there, reduce friction as much as possible.
For me, that’s the Ricoh GR:
Front right pocket
Automatic settings
Snap focus
Point and shoot
No thinking.
Just doing.
Just responding.
The Camera as Interpreter
Here’s the interesting part:
You think you’re in control — but the camera is interpreting reality too.
And when I go home and look at what I made…
I’m genuinely surprised every single time.
That’s why I never get bored.
That’s why location doesn’t matter.
Because abstraction transforms everything.
Living in Flux
I live in a world I call flux.
A constant state of becoming.
Always evolving. Always moving forward.
That’s where meaning is found.
That’s where joy is found.
And photography — done this way — becomes an infinite playground.
So I wanted to make this video for Dimmitri—you were talking about culling, editing, and all that kind of jazz. I wanted to show you how incredible the small JPEG workflow with the iPad Pro is.
Honestly, any iPad can do this.
The Daily Import System
I make a folder for each day that I photograph.
Today is April 26th, 2026.
I already have the USB-C to SD reader plugged into the iPad, SD card loaded. I import everything directly into that day’s folder.
We’re talking about ~200 JPEGs importing fast. Like, no friction.
And once it’s done, the folder just pops up at the top of the albums. Everything is organized chronologically.
Simple.
First Pass: Intuitive Culling
Now I go through the photos and make my initial favorites.
I don’t overthink this.
I tap the thumbnail → hit the favorite icon → move on.
It’s not about being perfect. It’s about moving fast.
I’m not sitting there going back and forth between two images. I just pick one and keep it pushing.
You can usually tell which photo is stronger just from the thumbnail. You see the composition, the edges of the frame—it’s obvious.
Shooting the Walk
These photos were made on a walk through Kensington and Center City in Philadelphia.
I wasn’t even “seriously” shooting—just on a call, talking, making snapshots.
Then I got on the train and went straight into chaos.
And yeah, I know people might ask why photograph gritty scenes like that—drug use, rough environments, all that.
But for me:
It’s my duty to document humanity in the entirety of the city.
Philadelphia has beauty—parks, nature—but also these intense, raw environments.
I don’t shy away from that.
Of course, I’m mindful—concealing identities when needed. But people were open. I even showed them my book Flux, and they were rocking with it.
So I made the photos.
Second Pass: Monthly Selections
After the first pass, I go into the Favorites folder.
I already have a monthly folder ready—April 2026 selections.
Now I go through the favorites and drag anything that stands out into that monthly folder.
This is the second layer of filtering.
Still fast. Still intuitive.
Using AI to Decide Faster
If I have multiple frames of the same scene, I don’t waste time.
I highlight them, send them to ChatGPT:
“Which photograph is the keeper? File name.”
And it tells me.
Nine times out of ten, it confirms what I already felt.
I believe in technology. I believe in speed.
Photography doesn’t need to be slow and painful.
This helps me move forward instead of getting stuck.
Third Pass: Yearly Selections
Now I go into the monthly folder and make another round of selections.
From there, I drag the best images into a yearly folder (2026).
These are the photos I’ll:
Upload to my website
Share in Discord
Use for daily publishing
But let’s be clear:
These are NOT final selections.
They’re just part of the daily rhythm.
The Long-Term Game
The real selection happens later.
Months later. Years later.
When I’m making a book, that’s when I go deep—cutting it down to 50–60 images.
That’s a different mindset entirely.
Right now?
This is just practice. Daily movement. Staying in rhythm.
Backup + Archive (Lightroom)
Once I have my final daily selects (usually around 10–15 photos), I bring them into Lightroom.
I keep a massive Ricoh GR black and white album—thousands of images.
Everything syncs to the cloud.
Everything backed up.
Everything organized.
Publish + Move On
From there:
Airdrop to my phone
Upload to Discord
Share the work
And then?
Move on to the next day.
No overthinking. No dragging it out.
Just shoot → select → publish → repeat.
Final Thought
This is the system.
Fast JPEGs. iPad workflow. Minimal friction.
One camera. One aesthetic. One workflow. One rhythm.
