When my video Black Clouds quietly crossed one million views on YouTube, many people discovered it as a music video. For me, it was also something else entirely: a moving photograph. The visual language of Black Clouds , produced by Lydia Fauconnet, did not emerge from cinematic references or storytelling conventions. It grew out of the same place as my photographic work — a long-standing relationship with black and white, texture, contrast, and the space between things. Pho

In the age of ultra-sharp sensors and AI-powered noise reduction, grain has become almost an endangered species. We spend hours polishing our images until every pixel looks clinically perfect — and, somehow, lifeless in some cases. Yet grain, that ancient imperfection from the analog world, carries something no algorithm can reproduce: a pulse . What Grain Really Is In film photography, grain comes from the microscopic silver halide crystals embedded in the emulsion. The high

When we think of David Lynch, we imagine his strange, dreamlike, sometimes disturbing films: Blue Velvet , Twin Peaks , Mulholland Drive and the amazing Erasorhead . But Lynch is not only a filmmaker. He is also a painter, musician, and… photographer. His practice of still images sheds new light on his cinematic universe. 1. A photography of shadows In his photographic series ( The Factory Photographs , Snowmen , Nudes ), Lynch seeks mystery in the ordinary . Old abandoned fa

I’ve always had a complicated relationship with color. As someone who’s colorblind, the world often comes to me in mixed si gnals—reds...