Cutting Diamonds
“Photography is like diamond cutting: if you miss, you miss.”
- Robert Rauschenberg
I was grabbing cocktails last night, downtown Minneapolis, with my buddy Joel Bowers and Sarah, when he picked up my Leica M6 and asked if I had a favorite photo that I made with it in 2023.
As much as I loved that question, responding to it on the spot was hard. So… as I sat down with coffee in hand this morning, I tried to narrow my answer down to a few.
For The Curious: All of these were shot on Ilford HP5 film that I self-developed and scanned or darkroom printed. I was trying out a bunch of different lenses and focal lengths, but a 35mm lives on it now. (Maybe permanently?)
Although I’m so damn thankful a Carl Zeiss 28mm was on the first photo… as allowed me a wide enough field of view to capture the entire band (minus myself) in the greenroom before we played in Missouri this summer.
