Unboxing ‘I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath’

I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath‘ documents Agathe Rousselle’s two week vacation in San Francisco following a breakup and personal crisis at home. The careening narrative follows Rousselle as she walks and parties her way to some inner peace, and ceiba’s excellent production reinforces the narrative and puts viewers in the center of it all.

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Unboxing ‘The f/D Book of Pinhole’

The f/D Book of Pinhole: A global survey of pinhole photography is f/D‘s book of 100 pinhole photographs by 100 international photographers, edited by Kier Selinsky and Libby Duncan Selinsky. They don’t have copies for sale yet, but the Kickstarter rewards are arriving as I type. Mine came yesterday, and you’re seeing it here first…

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Pan F+ Fail

Ah, the best laid plans…

I received a roll of Ilford Pan F+ 50 in the Emulsive Santa thing last winter, and after the fun blurry stuff I got out of the XA during #BIFscale17, I wanted to see if I could reproduce it somehow. Seeing as I shot the #BIFscale roll at EI 50, I surmised the Pan F+ 50 might produce similar results. Sadly, most of my negatives came out like this:

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Dust in the Wind

From Surah al Kahf

وَاضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَاءٍ أَنزَلْنَاهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الْأَرْضِ فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًا تَذْرُوهُ الرِّيَاحُ ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُّقْتَدِرًا

And present to them the example of the life of this world, like rain which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it and it becomes dry remnants, scattered by the winds. And Allah is ever, over all things, Perfect in Ability.

This is all temporary.

Kansas got it part right: Nothing lasts forever, not even the Earth and sky.