After last night’s thunderstorm, I was relieved to discover that my shoes weren’t too wet. I had spent the previous night fretting that I’d have to spend the next walking around in mini swimming pools. Thankfully, after having put a ton of paper towe ...
In May 2022, I took a trip to Saint-Malo. It’s a city in Brittany, a region in the North-West of France. It’s also a region that shares the same name as the country to the north of the English Channel. In French, ‘La Bretagne’ refers to Brittany, a ...
A few months ago I went on a business trip to Marseille. But it wasn’t just any business trip; it was a film shoot for one of my company’s clients, a large multinational corporation with a big office in Paris. As a copywriter in an ad agency, I, alon ...
In December 2020, I spent a weekend in Rouen, the capital of Normandy. It was a fairly spontaneous decision. While I had been thinking of going somewhere, after spending Christmas at home, the urge to travel grew irresistible. At the time, travelli ...
I recently spent a weekend in Lyon, where my sister is currently on exchange. Despite having lived in France on and off for over two years, I had never actually visited the city that is often described as 'la capitale de la gastronomie'. This hadn’t b ...
The day before I was to fly back to New Zealand, I took photos around Paris. I had around 20 exposures left on my roll of Kodak Portra 400, and as I was going to enter a fortnight of MIQ or Managed Isolation and Quarantine in a hotel in Auckland, I th ...
In the summer of 2020, I took a bunch of photos around Paris. Using my Nikon FM2n and the 35mm film stocks Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 and Fuji Superia 200, I would wander around the city and look for moments to memorialise. After going through the rolls, ...
There’s an idea in photography that if you want to be taken seriously, you should shoot on black-and-white film. As everyone shoots in colour on their phones nowadays, opting to shoot with old twentieth-century technology marks you out from the crowd ...
When I arrived in Paris in March 2020, I brought some rolls of 35mm film with me. In summer 2020, while I was jobless and pretty hopeless, I began shooting a roll of Fuji Neopan Acros 100 (35mm) on my Olympus mju ii.Having bought the film stock from a ...
Nuit Blanche is an annual arts festival that takes place in Paris and other cities around the world. One night a year, art galleries, churches, bars and other institutions open their doors to the public, turning cities into de facto art galleries. As ...
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