I wrote the first of these rules in 2018 on the back of a contact sheet. The fifth is still changing.
I wrote the first of these rules in 2018 on the back of a contact sheet. The fifth is still changing.
Five rules
Arrive early and stay late. Make the second frame. Never photograph what you came to photograph. Print small before you print large. Look at the photograph for a week before deciding it exists.
Pl. 02
Rules for Looking
Notebook, 2026
“The sea did not change. I did.”
— Field notes, fourth evening
I break every one of them regularly. They are less rules than places to return to.
Pl. 03
Study I
Notebook
Pl. 04
Study II
Notebook
If you have rules of your own, I would like to hear them.
Tenoir
Notebook
Practice
Rules
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