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max @an.empty.photo · 19/01/2026

my saul leiter book is one of the heaviest books I own, just a little something to think about

max @an.empty.photo · 16/12/2025

Untitled with clock and smoke 📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar 210mm //🎞️ Ilford FP4+ // 🧪: 510 Pyro #4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #time #clocks

A clock by the Waterbury clock company dating to 1890 sits in a dark scene, resplendent in its ogee ornamentation and still ticking smoke blooms from its posterior as its pendulum smears.

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max @an.empty.photo · 29/09/2025

If you get a chance while it’s on you’ve got to go see the Yoshida Chizuko retrospective at Portland Art Museum, just exceptionally lovely modernist prints portlandartmuseum.org/event/yoshid... #art #museum #portland

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Yoshida Chizuko - Portland Art Museum

The first major retrospective to focus on the groundbreaking 20th-century painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), a pioneering woman modernist in Japan.

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max @an.empty.photo · 01/09/2025

Summers Ends 📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Nikon Nikkor SW 90mm f/4.5 // 🎞️: Kodak TXP320 🧪: Xtol 1:1 #4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #stilllife #summer

A dried arrangement of sorghum and eucalyptus sits half-illuminated and soft on a glassy black precipice backgrounded by gray gradient shifting quickly from light to black lower left to top right as woven goods and berry baskets barely escape the encroaching shadows.

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max @an.empty.photo · 27/07/2025

Forever a legend in my mind 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor ?? 200mm) // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor? it mostly looked… bad) #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture

A funky 60s or 70s building is dappled AF by soft shadows from distant shores. The buildings second-story facade is an uneven rectilinear grid filled within seemingly random colors and an amazingly vague (if extant) periodicity with the greatest consistency attained by a single cours of transparent windows within which a grey-brown patterning emerges from the flattened dimmed office interior, and unoccupied.

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max @an.empty.photo · 14/07/2025

run from the sun 📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Nikon Nikkor SW 90mm f/4.5 // 🎞️: Film Washi E (ISO 3) // ☀️: 8 minutes at f/64 // 🧪: Rodinal 1:100 #4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #experimental

a long exposure image of deeply rutted gravel alley where most greens fade to white and everything crunches, brittle under the influence of the unrelenting and unrestrainable sun

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max @an.empty.photo · 10/07/2025

there is a casual violence to time 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Eastman Double-X (pulled -1 in Xtol) #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #abstract #art @photos.bsky.art

a grayscale pastiche of architectural elements and a crumbling rose

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max @an.empty.photo · 08/07/2025

No one comes through here 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1 #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #newtopographics #graffiti @bsky.art

A black and white photograph of a doorway shaded from the left: the front step bears a totemic scrawl of a monstrous face, minor grafitos have left their inscriptions on the brick and glass and contributed their little pieces to the collage texture framing two screen doors shut forever, and, screwed shut tight over locked shop doors of a Reagan vintage and host to the centerpiece of the image, an unaddressed inscription:

“HATE ME
MORE+MORE”

The author of which, in disciplined dispassion or in red hot emotions disregarded the multifaceted topology of their canvas interleaving text with three or more layers of screen and door and glass and blinds.

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max @an.empty.photo · 07/07/2025

Noonday Demon No. 2 📸: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Eastman Double-X (pulled -1 in Xtol) #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture #urban #newtopographics #shadow #lightandshadow #noir #neonoir

A rain-slicked sidewalk slides upward into gray skies, crowded by hundred year-old brickwork and on-street parking buffered by a thin row of barren trees. Steam gushes from a vent while a dark figure central to the image cresting the damp sidewalk approaches or departs, an indistinct silhouette.

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max @an.empty.photo · 06/07/2025

***Noonday Demon*** 📸: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Eastman Double-X (pulled -1 in Xtol) 📷: Minolta SRT202 // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor?) #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture #urban #newtopographics #shadow #lightandshadow

An alligatored street gives way to gravel road under a flat grey sky carved up by power lines, a dark figure central to the image squarely in the gravel approaches or departs, an indistinct silhouette.

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max @an.empty.photo · 03/06/2025

it got so quiet 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor?) #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #architecture #urban #newtopographics #shadow #lightandshadow

an abandoned copy of the vision times layers at the base of adventuring stairs side lit by midday southern sunlight, giant doors loom cloaked in chiaroscuro and sutured shut foreclosing on a past filled with innumerable footsteps, “has the city at last lost relevance” some may ask without ever stepping foot on empty stairs or seeking empty silent spaces

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max @an.empty.photo · 27/05/2025

Unilateral Cataract 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Flic Film Elektra 100 (Aerocolor?) #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #freelensing

A color photograph looking through interior French doors toward a room with a checked floor, only a thin strip is in focus even though it is coplanar with much which has fallen out of focus.

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max @an.empty.photo · 09/05/2025

Curtain call 📷: Olympus Stylus 120 // 🎞️: Rollei RPX 100 // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1 #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #abstract

A black and white photograph emblazoned 21 12:08 showing a corrugation furred by clouds, a tulip vibrates at hypersonic speeds

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max @an.empty.photo · 01/05/2025

deathly clear 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1 #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #skull #decay #goth

A front three quarters view of a cow skull propped against a fence post weathered and showing the topology of its sutures and the structure of its fibers decayed under years of rain. Even bone rots.

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max @an.empty.photo · 29/04/2025

Every evening (endless months) 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1 #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #filth #grime #tree #asphalt #goth #abstract #icm

Stumbling over rain-slicked asphalt the air is thick and wet but breathable; rain pounds embracing every seam drips banding together into streams seamlessly slipping the one way through thread gaps and moss cracks dripping down from the trees. It’s so hard to see: it’s the murk, things started falling in years ago and this is what remains inviolate, unchanged and still puissant and pure.

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max @an.empty.photo · 27/04/2025

Enclosure 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1 #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #filth #grime #bamboo

Lost in a bamboo forest and blinded by the glaring sun recognition slowly flares that the stalks are streaks and the streaks are rivers carved through the grime of the city settling endlessly on a forgotten courtyard enclosed in lexan.

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max @an.empty.photo · 20/04/2025

Morning on uneven ground 📷: Minolta SRT202 (Rokkor PF 55mm 1.7/f) // 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X // 🧪: Kodak Xtol 1+1 #35mm #analog #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art #trees

Shadows grown long in sharp morning light softened by thin fog stretch across velveteen grass clumped on a drowsy hillock lead back to the tortuous trunk of an old oak tree as a cyclone fence dives precipitously into the ground behind.

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max @an.empty.photo · 15/04/2025

Fresh Xtol smells like burning hair.

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max @an.empty.photo · 21/01/2025

the sun sets 📸: Minolta SRT??? // 🎞️: Harman Phoenix #grain #35mm #film #photography #art #night

A color photograph cast green and yellow in low sodium light, dark shrubbery forms a cloudy occlusion of a banal street scene of power pole, power line, traffic control system, and a fading grey cloudy sky.

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max @an.empty.photo · 15/01/2025

one deep breath 🎞️: Bergger Pancro (somewhat X ray fogged) // 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🧪: XTol Stock (old and cold) #35mm #neonoir #grime #analog #film #car #decay #photography #art

A grainy black and white photograph of the rear tailgate of a vehicle, more than thirty years old, street-parked and unwashed for most of it. Rain-drenched and coated in algae, microbial tears stream cross its surface topology, the dead layers of past generations blacken having finally lost their war against oxygen. “4.0 litres,” reads the one visible badge: approximately the same volume as one deep breath.

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max @an.empty.photo · 13/01/2025

like a dream on a spring night 📷: Minolta SRT101 // 🎞️: Ferrania P33 // 🧪: Rodinal 1:100 semi-stand #35mm #analog #film #photography #decay #art

A black and white photograph of layered shades of gray interesecting with the chamfered window rubber gaskets around the window of a decrepit train. The greys, in their sheen, disrupted and discontinuous from indelicate and hasty restriping from innumerable repairs. The whites spallated with spiderwebbed gunshot-cracks where iron oxide protrudes in all-consuming blackness. Through the window divided by highlights from without and the handhold frameworks and windows of the otherside from within a shadowed figure slumps forward in a vinyl seat (unseen) as the time comes for the train to pull away.

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max @an.empty.photo · 06/01/2025

It’s a damp magic in this place. 📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar 210mm //🎞️ Kodak Tri-x 320 // 🧪: 510 Pyro #4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #landscape

A full 4x5 inch negative shows its inky border rebate marks: Kodak 320TXP, the image sticks its ears out showing a rippling seasonal pond in a spot of plains land reemerging from dumpy servitude. A monumental structure rises in the horizon before the trees, an arch, some decking, in memory of what or to what end? Its inscrutable mass reflects in the pond beneath a sky boiling with clouds, both unaccountable to the present day.

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max @an.empty.photo · 03/01/2025

Vacant 🎞️: Bergger Pancro (somewhat X ray fogged) // 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🧪: XTol Stock (old and cold) #35mm #reflection #neonoir #architectural #analog #film #photography #art

A grainy black and white photograph filled with glass reflecting indistinct sidewalk scenes covering (and covered in) shadows and highlights cast by unseen structures with geometries anonymized by distortion as they blend with the interior: a bench, a potted parlor palm, other things all flattened by shadows and rarely caressed by light. The text on the door reads “Fifth Avenue Building”; and that’s all there is, there’s nothing here.

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max @an.empty.photo · 01/01/2025

It was a reach 📸: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach Technika Symmar 150mm f/ 5.6 //🎞️ Kodak Tri-x 320 // 🧪: 510 Pyro #4x5 #largeformat #film #photography #art #happynewyear

A black and white photograph of a typewriter, Hermes 2000, sits atop a circular table before a mirror. On the table lays a pen, some typed pages, sized A5, a chthonic shot glass, a mirror, a vase filled with dried flowers and seed pods, a pile of papers and books, and cloth. The typewriter is near the end of its margin, the carriage shifted far to the left. A typed page sits in the typewriter, dated December 27th, 2034. The text begins “A typewriter, Hermes 2000, sits atop…”

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max @an.empty.photo · 27/12/2024

Vertebrae 🎞️: Bergger Pancro (somewhat X ray fogged) // 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🧪: XTol Stock (old and cold) #35mm #abstract #architectural #analog #film #photography #art

A black and white abstract photograph: glowing white vertebrae bisect a canvas transected by long shadows as the quiet roar of an echoing depth falls below (or does it soar above)? Lost, again. Most likely somewhere.

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max @an.empty.photo · 23/12/2024

The paper sky began to peel back 🎞️: Film Washi W // 📸: K.B. Canham 4x5 with Schneider Kreuznach 210mm APO-symmar #largeformat #analog #4x5 #papernegative #longexposure #photography #art

A sheet of washi paper painted with a silver halide emulsion and exposed for several seconds to a busy intersection shows its flaws with a ghosted car and a fading edge where light leaked in. The papers texture is evident and the road goes on forever down the center of the photograph; cut off from the sky by an overpass the trees fade into the white and wrinkled sky that has begun to pull away.

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max @an.empty.photo · 19/12/2024

I’ve spent my life here 📸: Minolta SRT202 (55mm Rokkor PF f/1.8) // 🎞️: Eastman 5222 Double-X (EI 500) #35mm #analog #film #photography #abstract #art

A black and white photograph of no commercial or utilitarian value displays the organic pastiche created by multiple shadows, reflections and blurs in the moments where the common objects in an urban environment conspire to confuse and converge in calamity.

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max @an.empty.photo · 18/12/2024

The sun is setting on this block. 📸: Minolta SRT202 (55mm Rokkor PF f/1.8) // 🎞️: Eastman 5222 Double-X (EI 500) #35mm #analog #film #photography #graffiti #art

A black and white photograph of a barred window swabbed with the interlocking paint of many individual graffiti tags; most prominently MOTHER, each tag excoriated individually and in concert by time, rivals, opponents, and deeply inscribed by the shadows of a setting sun on a saddened tenement block.

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max @an.empty.photo · 12/12/2024

It was so warm, it was perfect 🎞️: Kodak ColorPlus // 📸: Minolta SRT202 #tropical #summer #freelensing #35mm #analog #film #photography #art

A color photograph blurred and hazy, a memory faded from being out in the sun too long drenched in Imperial beer and scrubbed by sand. A rocky headland rises jagged above the turquoise pacific and is garnished finally by jungle. The humidity embraces you; there’s laughter in the distance; you feel no pain as the boat rocks in the delicate waves. You begin to drift off to sleep, what is it to wake?

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𝙵𝚎𝚎 @fairyism.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

All the things, that could have been. All the lives, I could have lived.

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max @an.empty.photo · 07/12/2024

Paphiopedilum “Magic Cherry” X “Voodoo Magic” (my current pfp) 📷: Sinar F2 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 90mm // 🎞️: Catlabs X 80 // 🧪: Kodak XTol #4x5 #largeformat #film #flower #macro #photography #art #largeformatfriday #orchid

$A black and white photograph, closeup of the back of an orchid bloom. The bloom from this angle: tripartite; two hairy sepals touch the lower edge of the frame and converge centrally at the stem in total darkness. From the darkness grows a teardrop fan white with black stripes that diverge from geometric abstraction into fractal organic fine veins.$

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max @an.empty.photo · 06/12/2024

If the light is on, come on in 📸: Mamiya RB67 (90mm Sekor C) // 🎞️: Ilford Delta 3200 #mediumformat #film #photography #art

A black and white photograph of a black house beneath tall doug fir trees backlit by a full moon in the coldest depths of night an inverted cross glows neon white in a parlor window, the thin lights nearby whisper discretely as the wind scours the streets.

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max @an.empty.photo · 04/12/2024

A front was rolling in 📷: Minolta SRT202 🎞️: Kodak ColorPlus #35mm #film #photography #BelieveInFilm #art

A color photograph wherein a stand of barren and ancient wintered trees long covered in a thatch of moss and lichen dwarf a bench made microscopic in scale, on a thin green berm of grass, and embedded in a bottomless sea of shed leaves, as a thick mist blows in obscuring the sky and darkening the day: it is winter.

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max @an.empty.photo · 02/12/2024

This place is never open 📸: Minolta SRT202 // 🎞️: Kodak ColorPlus #35mm #film #photography #BelieveinFilm #art

A color photograph of two wooden screen doors painted predominantly green but also mottled and painted inconsistently; behind them are mid-century aluminum shop doors covered with a UV bleached and brittled covering of some sorts. Several eras of security patrol stickers are present.

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max @an.empty.photo · 23/11/2024

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” — Samuel Beckett

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max @an.empty.photo · 17/11/2024

From the alleyways Silver gelatin 8x10 enlargement from 4x5 FP4+ negative, on Ilford MGFB Classic #analog #photography #4x5 #largeformat #filmphotography #art #print

A black and white photograph of a rundown garden shed next to a freestanding rusted weathervane behind a blurred cyclone fence. If you stand here long enough you will hear the squealing of rust, the strain of steel, and you will smell the dust of time.

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Steve Brokaw @stevebrokaw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

All, @ilfordphoto.com added their domain, so let’s followup

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max @an.empty.photo · 13/11/2024

Tsushima Ryokuho Silver gelatin contact print (4x5) on Ilford MGFB Classic #analog #film #photography #contactprint #4x5 #orchid

A single radiant neofinetia bloom with a phenomally long nectary glows white, backlit against a black backdrop, its leaves and roots a chaotic mass raising from a bed of peat moss. The background fades diagonally in a sharp gradient from black to nearly white.

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𝙵𝚎𝚎 @fairyism.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Don't allow social media to dictate how you feel about your own work.

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max @an.empty.photo · 12/11/2024

I’m exhausted from being upbeat and optimistic so I’m going to try being a well-rested pessimist.

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max @an.empty.photo · 12/11/2024

Spent all day in the darkroom listening to Dub Syndicate.

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max @an.empty.photo · 31/10/2024

Behind the barrier and in the verge. 📷: Minolta SRT101 (rokkor pf 55mm f/1.7) // 🎞️: Ilford FP4+ #35mm #analog #film #photography #art #BelieveInFilm #death #grave

A black and white photograph of an improvised memorial in the form of a cross. From top to bottom it is adorned by a silver masquerade mask, a birdhouse with B+B painted on the roof and "Breezie Baby” in a relaxed cursive script and over its door. At the crux of the cross is a soiled garment draped there next to the name “Jack" painted in block letters. Another cross lays in the background, indeed there are a number of such markers here, tucked away on public land, unmaintained and their stories fading.

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max @an.empty.photo · 30/10/2024

Vanda/neofinetia falcata “Tsushima Ryokuho” 📷: K.B. Canham DLC45 // 🔎: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar 210mm // 🎞️: Ilford FP4+ // 🧪: 510 Pyro #orchid #4x5 #film #photography #art

A black and white photograph of a white vandacious orchid with chaotic roots and leaves jutting about while the white bloom glows in backlight. The backdrop of the photo fades from black to white.

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Oto @oto2.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

📷️Nikon Zf 📸KONICA HEXANON AR 57mm F1.4 #photography

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