FLUX AUTO ZINE GENERATOR
An open-source browser-based system for automatically turning photographs into printable chronological zines.
No InDesign.
No layout software.
No manual sequencing.
The system is designed to eliminate workflow friction and make publishing automatic.
HOW IT WORKS
- Shoot photographs normally
- Select 15 JPEG photographs
- Open the FLUX Auto Zine Generator
- Drag the photographs into the browser
- Click: GENERATE FLUX ISSUE PDF
- The system automatically creates a printable PDF issue
WHAT THE SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY DOES
- reads photo timestamps from metadata
- preserves chronological order
- generates issue cover
- creates protocol page
- creates photo pages
- creates contact sheet
- creates metadata manifest
- compresses images
- exports lightweight printable PDF
No manual layout required.
PDF STRUCTURE
The generated issue includes:
- Front cover
- Blank inside cover
- Protocol page
- Blank spacer
- 15 chronological photo pages
- Contact sheet
- Metadata manifest
- Blank back cover
PRINT FORMAT
- 11 × 8.5 landscape
- double-sided printing
- staple left side
- office paper compatible
- lightweight PDF for sharing and archiving
CAPTION STRUCTURE
Each photograph automatically includes:
Top Right:
- issue number
- image sequence number
Bottom Left:
- timestamp
- photographer name
- issue/page reference
All extracted automatically from metadata.
PHILOSOPHY
shoot → select → sequence → publish → move on
The goal is to remove unnecessary friction between making photographs and publishing them.
The system encourages:
- daily practice
- chronological thinking
- fast decision making
- lightweight publishing
- open digital archives
WHAT IS FLUX
FLUX is an open-source chronological photography publishing system.
Every issue becomes a timestamped fragment of lived experience.
The archive grows over time through repetition, consistency, and movement rather than perfectionism.
GENERATOR
How to See the Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Street Photography & Light)
How to See the Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Street Photography & Light)
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.
Currently photographing this palm here, looking at the beautiful light and these lines and the shapes that form in the center of this beautiful plant.
Walking around South Beach, thinking today about abstraction in photography and how we can use light and our cameras to basically create anything.
There’s something so powerful about wielding light—using it to lift ordinary, mundane moments to a new height.
It’s the way that light renders upon the camera sensor that creates the surprise.
My Current Workflow
I’m shooting with the Ricoh GR:
- High contrast black and white JPEGs
- Automatic settings
- Everything baked into the file
- No post-processing
I crank the contrast all the way up.
And what’s incredible about this workflow is that while I’m looking at life with my eyes, what arises in the frame is a surprise.
Maybe it’s a mistake.
Maybe it’s an imperfection.
But that’s the point.
Let Light Do the Work
By:
- Crushing the shadows
- Exposing for the highlights
You start to reveal ambiguity and mystery.
And honestly, that’s what keeps me curious.
It’s the surprise that arises in the frames that I’m making.
When I go home and look through my photos, I’m not judging them first—I’m curious.
What did the camera see today?
Curiosity Over Location
A big shift for me:
I’m no longer dependent on the external world to give me something interesting.
Because let’s be real—
Most places feel boring.
Most moments feel ordinary.
But my argument is:
Maybe you’re just not curious.
What we control as photographers is how we see and feel.
Not the location.
Not the subject.
Just our attention.
Stop Hunting for Photos
I’m no longer:
- Chasing moments
- Waiting for perfect alignment
- Hoping something interesting happens
Instead:
I’m just there.
Prepared.
And whatever catches my eye—I respond intuitively, instinctively, quickly.
Just snapshots.
And over time?
You begin to discover how you actually see.
Abstraction as a Solution
Abstraction solved a big problem for me:
How do I integrate photography into everyday life?
Without needing:
- A special place
- A special subject
- A perfect moment
When you abstract the world, you unlock infinite novelty.
There is something extraordinary within the ordinary way that light casts upon everything.
Chip Away at Life
That’s really what this is:
Chipping away.
- A leaf blowing
- A gesture
- A glance
- Light hitting a wall
Most of the time?
Nothing is happening.
People are just walking from point A to point B.
But if you stay open…
Something always emerges.
The Monkey Moment
And then—out of nowhere—
A guy rides down the street with a monkey on his bike.
I missed the shot.
Completely.
Because I was talking to the camera.
And honestly?
That’s the perfect lesson.
You never know. A fucking monkey might just appear.
But you have to be there.
Ready.
Not distracted.
Final Thought
Don’t wait for something interesting.
Don’t rely on your location.
Don’t chase the perfect moment.
Just:
- Show up
- Stay curious
- Chip away at life
Because something is always happening.
A glance.
A gesture.
A shift in light.
And if you stay open—
you’ll see it.
Abstraction isn’t about removing reality.
It’s about seeing it differently.
Alright, get out there and start photographing.
And yeah—
look out for monkeys.
300
300
Life is extremely short
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. 
Mental Health & Photography: Why Walking With a Camera Changes Everything
Mental Health & Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.
Today’s topic is mental health and photography—and the intersection between these two things.
Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I’m just here to share my ideas.
Physical Health is Mental Health
I believe that physical health is mental health.
When you’re in an abundantly vital state—when your legs are strong, when you’re moving—it becomes almost impossible for depression to keep up.
But this isn’t about distracting yourself.
It’s about committing to something.
The Unreachable Goal
You give yourself an audacious goal.
Something almost unattainable.
And you move toward it every single day.
Detached from whether you’ll ever reach it.
And in that process—you find purpose.
For me, that thing is photography.
Showing up daily is 99% of the game.
The Present Moment
When I’m walking and photographing…
There’s nothing going on in my head.
Just instinct.
Just movement.
Just being.
You exist outside the passage of time.
No past.
No future.
Just the present moment.
And in that moment—you find meaning.
Why Depression Can’t Keep Up
When you have something that makes you feel so good…
That you go to sleep almost mourning the end of the day…
And wake up excited for the next sunrise…
Depression doesn’t really stand a chance.
Never Miss Another Sunrise
That’s the goal.
Wake up every day in the spirit of play.
Go outside.
Start photographing.
Enthusiasm
When you look at the word enthusiasm…
It comes from being “possessed by God.”
That’s how I want to wake up.
Possessed by something greater.
Something that gives me:
- Energy
- Clarity
- Vision
- Movement
Depression vs Movement
To be depressed is to be pressed down.
Bound to your chair.
Your bed.
Your phone.
Watching life pass you by.
When you stop moving, your soul slowly dies.
But when you’re out in the world…
Walking. Seeing. Responding…
You come alive.
Say Yes to Life
So I say:
Go outside.
Catch the sun’s rays.
Walk with your camera.
Chip away at life each day.
Let photography become:
Your will to power.
Photograph From Courage
Courage comes from core—the heart.
So photograph from your heart.
Wear it on your sleeve.
Let your internal world reflect in your photos.
The Reflection
When you wake up in a state of joy…
When you’re eager to start the day…
That energy shows up in your work.
And over time…
You build a life full of meaning.
That’s how I see mental health and photography intersecting.
Never miss another sunrise.
And keep clicking that damn shutter.
Peace.
Beginner’s Mind in Street Photography (Why Thinking Less Makes Better Photos)
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.
Final Thought
Stop worrying about outcomes.
Stop overthinking photography.
Just surrender to the process.
Because over time…
You’ll find exactly what you were looking for.
And yeah — if this resonates, go deeper.
I’ve got more for you.
Check the link.
I’ll see you soon.
Peace.
How to Make Interesting Photos Out of Nothing
How to Make Interesting Photos Out of Nothing
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.
Today I wanna discuss how to make interesting photos out of nothing.
Start With What’s There
Just yesterday, we had a storm, and a rainbow appeared.
I was looking around trying to make a photo of something besides just the rainbow itself… and there was nothing.
So I stepped into the frame and made a self-portrait.
Now we have something.
Make It Personal
I was walking through a nature path, looking at leaves. I plucked a few, held them in my hand, and made a photograph.
Now when I look back at those images, I can relive those moments.
That’s the point.
Photography as memory is powerful.
In this modern world, we’re always chasing the next “best” frame. Trying to detach ourselves. Trying to be objective.
I say—do the opposite.
Radically interpret your photography from a subjective, emotional state.
Build Brick by Brick
If you keep showing up and making photos every day…
Brick by brick.
Stone by stone.
You’ll eventually have an archive that means something to you.
Detach from whether people like your photos.
Instead, see your work as:
- A visual diary
- A self-portrait
- A reflection of your internal state
The Real Secret
You want to make something interesting?
Then you have to keep making photos.
That’s it.
There’s no shortcut.
You don’t find interesting photos—you create them through repetition.
Expand Your Range
Don’t limit yourself.
- If you shoot only candid moments → try portraits
- If you shoot only landscapes → go to the city
- If you shoot only one way → break it
Versatility creates opportunity.
Think Like a Skateboarder
This is the mindset shift.
A skateboarder can look at:
- A curb
- A ledge
- A ramp
And see infinite possibilities.
Same spot. Endless tricks.
Photography is the same.
There’s a million ways to articulate a single scene.
So when you’re walking through the streets…
Think like a skateboarder.
Embrace Ambiguity
When I’m photographing plants or textures, I’m drawn to:
- Mystery
- Ambiguity
- Isolation
Crushing the background.
Letting the subject float.
Sometimes the less obvious the image is…
The more interesting it becomes.
Surrender to the Medium
Stop forcing it.
Stop hunting.
Start responding.
Surrender to photography.
That means:
- Shooting without overthinking
- Letting time pass
- Making lots of frames
- Accepting mistakes
Because eventually…
It’s inevitable.
You will make something.
Curiosity Over Outcome
If you’re in a mall, a parking lot, or anywhere “boring”—
Don’t ask:
“Is this interesting?”
Ask:
“What would this look like as a photograph?”
That question changes everything.
The Flow State
When you:
- Stay curious
- Keep shooting
- Let go of control
You enter flow.
Photography becomes effortless.
Start With Yourself
Sometimes the first photo of the day is just your own face.
You’re looking at:
- Light
- Shadow
- Expression
Then you look up.
You notice more.
You slow down.
You see the spider. The web. The detail.
And it builds from there.
Final Thought
You don’t need something interesting.
You need:
- Curiosity
- Consistency
- Openness
Ask questions. Follow instinct. Chip away at the day.
Because when you do that…
You realize:
You can make something out of nothing.
If this resonated, join the 7-Day Photography Challenge.
Submit your work. I’ll review it. And we’ll build together.
I’ll see you in the next video.
Peace.
My Daily iPad Workflow for Street Photography (Fast JPEG System)
My Daily iPad Workflow for Street Photography (Fast JPEG System)
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.
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.
That’s it.
Frictionless Photography Workflow: How to Enter Flow State Every Day
Frictionless Photography Workflow: How to Enter Flow State Every Day
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.
Today I want to share with you some thoughts on how adopting a frictionless workflow has completely transformed my photography.
When you have a frictionless workflow, photography becomes effortless—and then inevitably, the flow state emerges.
And the flow state is one of the peak human experiences you can achieve.
Photography as a Way of Being
Photography for me has become a way of being, more than just a way to express myself creatively.
It’s how I:
- feel deeply
- respond instinctively
- engage with the moment in front of me
So what I’ve done is remove all decisions from the ground up.
“I stay tried and true to one camera, one lens.”
I slip the Ricoh GR in my front right pocket, live my life, and photograph what I find.
No more hunting.
Removing Decision Fatigue
I don’t make dedicated trips to go shoot.
I don’t block time.
Photography is now integrated into my everyday life.
The goal is simple: stay in a state where I’m always ready to notice.
Because the flow state emerges when you’re laser focused—and you can’t hesitate.
The Technical Side of Effortlessness
On a practical level:
- I shoot automatic mode
- I use small JPEG files
- I max out contrast
So all I’m left with is:
light and shadow
This isn’t an aesthetic decision.
It’s a technical one that removes friction:
- fast culling
- instant uploads
- no hard drive backlog
Black and White as a Philosophy
Black and white isn’t about style.
It’s about eliminating noise.
“Style arises when you no longer hesitate and cultivate instinct.”
When everything is stripped away, all that’s left is:
- instinct
- reaction
- presence
The Identity Shift
There’s been a shift:
From:
- “photographer who goes out to shoot”
To:
- “person who is always photographing”
Because it’s so effortless now, I’m in a perpetual flow state.
Clicking the shutter becomes part of life.
Playing the Long Game
I’ve been practicing for over a decade.
And I realized:
Photography can actually get in the way of living.
So I removed everything unnecessary.
Now I can:
- focus on the moment
- stay present
- notice deeply
What Actually Matters
All the technical stuff?
Secondary.
What matters to me is:
- living
- noticing
- responding
- feeling
“The photographs you make from this state reflect your inner world.”
Photography as a Visual Diary
This is a visual diary.
Something:
- personal
- subjective
- honest
The goal isn’t:
- a book
- a gallery
- Instagram validation
The goal is:
“Making something for the sake of making something.”
That’s the autotelic state.
Infinite Meaning in the Everyday
This process has made photography joyful again.
It gives me:
- meaning
- purpose
- curiosity
I literally go to sleep excited to wake up and shoot again.
Human First, Photographer Second
You’re a human first.
Photographer second.
So wake up with enthusiasm.
Go live your life.
Photography will follow.
Effortlessly.
Final Thought
If you want to avoid burnout…
Remove more.
Strip everything down.
Stay with:
- light
- shadow
- instinct
And it becomes inevitable:
You will create.
If this resonates with you, join me in this practice.
Otherwise…
I’ll be out on the streets.
In the spirit of play.
Every single day.
