01/15/2026
(Ad) When I first started out, I spent a year learning traditional photography. I loved working in the darkroom, seeing all these shapes and shadows gradually appear on the page, like they were moving, like magic. It was good to have a physical object to hold in my hand, to take that object home, put it up on the wall, and share it with people.
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These days, I don't often get to hold physical copies of my work. But yesterday morning I opened a package from . It was a dozen square prints of my photos and I felt the same buzz I felt all those years ago seeing my work in print for the first time. I must've looked at these photos hundreds of times on my phone and laptop, but looking at them in print was like seeing them fresh. I remembered all the details of the day: who I was with, where we were, what we were doing… how Lenny really hated that headdress and savagely chewed it to shreds seconds after the photo was taken.
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That’s what printing our photos does, I think: it brings memories to life, like magic. And now is a good time to bring a bit of magic into our homes.
