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17 dispatches · updated 2026-10-16

The Flâneur

The Flâneur is a little more private, a bit more experimental than what I publish on the website—and, if I may lean into the obvious metaphor, a little more drifting. Not everything shared there will appear here, and you’ll find more work-in-progress updates too.

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Start Here

  • The essay Non-photographers Need Not Apply #008 · 2024-01Why photobooks reach only photographers, and what would break them out.
  • The method Gear, Gear, Gear‑Freeze! #010 · 2025-04Every tool has two interfaces. Choose deliberately, then stop looking.
  • The story so far Scent of Time #014 · 2026-06The debut photobook: from a bench in Madrid to a table on Bowen Island.

Contact Sheet

  • From A Room to Work In, number 17, 2026-10-16 A Room to Work In 17A ▸17 2026-10-16
  • From The Other Side of the Gate, number 16, 2026-09-02 The Other Side of the Gate 16A ▸16 2026-09-02
  • From Before the Boxes, number 15, 2026-07-31 Before the Boxes 15A ▸15 2026-07-31
  • From Scent of Time, number 14, 2026-06-26 Scent of Time 14A ▸14 2026-06-26
  • From Paper and Permission, number 13, 2025-12-12 Paper and Permission 13A ▸13 2025-12-12
  • From A Chair in the Sky, number 12, 2025-07-22 A Chair in the Sky 12A ▸12 2025-07-22
  • From Ruins in Print, number 11, 2025-06-25 Ruins in Print 11A ▸11 2025-06-25
  • From Gear, Gear, Gear‑Freeze!, number 10, 2025-04-14 Gear, Gear, Gear‑Freeze! 10A ▸10 2025-04-14
  • From Dreaming with One Eye Open, number 1, 2021-02-08 Dreaming with One Eye Open 1A ▸1 2021-02-08

One frame from each dispatch that carried photographs. Each opens the letter it came from.

2026

  • #017 · 2026-10 A Room to Work In
  • #016 · 2026-09 The Other Side of the Gate
  • #015 · 2026-07 Before the Boxes
  • #014 · 2026-06 Scent of Time

2025

  • #013 · 2025-12 Paper and Permission
  • #012 · 2025-07 A Chair in the Sky
  • #011 · 2025-06 Ruins in Print
  • #010 · 2025-04 Gear, Gear, Gear‑Freeze!
  • #009 · 2025-03 New Beginnings

2024

  • #008 · 2024-01 Non-photographers Need Not Apply
  • #007 · 2024-01 Year of Making and Journey of a Naïve Book Maker

2023

  • #006 · 2023-01 Jinny Street Gallery

2022

  • #005 · 2022-12 2022 Retrospective
  • #004 · 2022-08 The Flâneur

2021

as Dreaming with One Eye Open

  • #003 · 2021-06 Images, Words, and a Doorbell
  • #002 · 2021-05 Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
  • #001 · 2021-02 Dreaming with One Eye Open

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