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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

there’s a symposium coming up on October 25th too 😯

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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

shooting color or b&w for this? going to be pretty sick either way I’d reckon

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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 · 15/07/2025

when they put a ring on you

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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

Love these, I like the look of the developer with FP4, I might need to give it a try!

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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 · 29/04/2025

wow the color and blur on these feels like colored pencils

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max @an.empty.photo · 28/04/2025

damn that looks good, the geometry is really nice for 12mm

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max @an.empty.photo · 28/04/2025

love this vibe, is that flash or just how the highlights were?

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max @an.empty.photo · 28/04/2025

Lovely shadowy forest!

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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

they’re great, pressure and cadence can come through to a surprising degree in the resulting print

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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 · 07/01/2025

Wonderful work Tisha! So nicely balanced. Thank you!

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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 · 06/01/2025

love the motion and grain in this

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max @an.empty.photo · 03/01/2025

Beautiful composition well supported by the flare 🔥🤘

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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 · 02/01/2025

True! Like all the toys that became favorites for circuit bending

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max @an.empty.photo · 02/01/2025

I guess it’s a little unobtrusive black camera, so that’s something. Probably someone famous used one?

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max @an.empty.photo · 02/01/2025

computational photography and internet connected everything, it turns out, wasn’t what everyone wanted

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max @an.empty.photo · 02/01/2025

Yeah! The crinkle paint came out pretty cool. It’s modern tri-x, bought last month, I’ve liked the negatives I’ve had with it (first batch of the modern sheet film) and I’ve shot it in overcast daylight and under 3000K continuous lights. Reciprocity is fairly straightforward. Overall, I like it.

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max @an.empty.photo · 01/01/2025

Those exposed helicals are a cool look, damn

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max @an.empty.photo · 01/01/2025

Yeah! It’s pretty cool, couple themes here I think I might like to play with/develop more.

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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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