Photography
I've made photographs my entire life. There are photos of me as a toddler with a made-in-Hong-Kong Diana that used 120 film. For a stretch, I made photographs professionally. These days I shoot both film and digital mostly for fun. Digital is fast, capable, and convenient for documentation. Film I use just because I like it—that should be reason enough.
What keeps pulling me back is large-format work and the darkroom. A large-format negative enforces a certain slowness: a handful of frames, each one deliberate, and then a print made with chemistry that hasn't fundamentally changed in a century. There isn't anything mystical about this craft, but it rewards patience, punishes sloppiness, and at the end there is something physical that you can hold. That is a lot more fulfilling than images that sit on hard drives and never get printed. My current working thesis is that for photography to be real, it must be printed.
So the current project is a return to darkroom printing. If you're a large-format or darkroom person yourself, I'm always glad to compare notes. The contact page has the details.
My photography account on Instagram is ClickClickMagic.