BEW Film & Photo

08/01/2026

Dobar dan. A cold wind blows in off the water and the ancient port of Dubrovnik is quiet but for the sound of rough, sea weathered men repairing their boats. The smell of to***co curls around on the faint breeze that follows. A dog barks and an outboard motor snaps to life. The dog swims after his owner as he sets off, then turns back. The sky grows pale pink as the sun sets over the Adriatic.

10/12/2025

I broke my camera. That's the bad news. The good news is that is just as good as advertised, a cinema film stock that produces pleasing colors and it even held up well to the entirely unintentional light leaks from my camera body.

Now I'm off to cover my Nikon in tape before I finish this next roll.
hungary

26/11/2025

20/11/2025

Lazy Seattle afternoon

Shot on (probably) Fomapan 400, 120

18/11/2025

Silence.

If I remember right, this was shot on 100 slide film, trying to balance a shaky hand in the pitch dark of Seattle's Cathedral of Saint James.

04/11/2025

The trattoria gradually fall silent and the streets empty out late into the night. A different kind of Rome appears.

Now alone, suddenly you feel that you aren't looking at history around you. Not quite.

The angels of Castel San Angelo loom heavily into the black sky, watching over the yellow glow of the streetlights. They aren't alone, and it seems neither are you.

In every corridor the gaze of a dozen Saints follows you with marble, plaster, and cracked stone eyes.

No, in Rome the deep night reverses the roles that you so comfortably felt in the daytime. By the light of day you are a spectator looking out from modernity on the vast slope of history. But not at night.

At night you feel the truth, that the generations are not, in fact, gone to time. Instead they crowd around us like a vast tide coming in, surrounding you like the statues looking down on you now.

You are the crest but they are the wave.

No, in Rome at night you know that you do not look at history. The eyes of history are now upon you.

Shot on ultra fast 35mm black and white film.

PLUS! You can buy this print for your home - it's part of the new Cafe Culture collection that's available now. Check out the link in bio to see the whole collection.

02/11/2025

Gentle lands make bad grapes.

On the rocky shores of Pelješac the grapes grow high up on the steep cliffs. From below the vines look like they're about to slide right down the mountain and into the sea. From above it feels like you will.

The hot sun and loose, karst stones here prove too much for most plants, yet the dark plavac mali grapes thrive in adversity. They're deep purple, with a juice that's crimson like blood.

Nor is it an idle comparison, the cliffsides that shelter the grapes are thick with sharp rocks and thorns. In a morning picking you see plenty of both.

But the rocky soil, the bright sun, and wind don't torment idly. The wine here, Dingać, is the most prized in Croatia. With one glass it's easy to see why they go through all the effort.

Thanks, for letting me ride along this picking season!

23/08/2025

VIVA CRISTO REY, spotted in Brač, Croatia.
Could Brač have a connection to the Cristeros? Or is it just a reminder of how far the story of the legendary Cristiada has reached?