Outside, inside

Outside it is spring, and I could spring right out the window, that's how painful I find this long, not-being-allowed-to-move-one's-limbs. - Robert Walser, The Tanners Can I tell you a secret? You...

The beginning of saying goodbye

Expired film and a day with a friend from "someplace I've never heard of" who will only call me Balthazar by mistake. The beginning of saying goodbye to this place. We've made the best of it, my...

Book a Shoot: The Midwest Is Beautiful Special

As some of you know, we are leaving our home in Madison, WI to move to Brooklyn in August. While we will miss our Midwest home, we are excited for a new coastal adventure. The landlocked Midwest is...

A Queen

In early March I sneaked off to Los Angeles to shoot a woman who has inspired me for some time. She makes some of the most beautiful lingerie you will ever find under the label Le Sang Bleu. She is...

Watching, Waiting

But it did not last

The winter. This time of feeling like everything's stuck in place, like the clothes will never come off, like I have nothing good to say or write, like the time for moving will never come. It's not...

Bianca

It's hard not to be charmed by the oh so lovely Bianca Stone. It took the most tremendous luck for this shoot to happen. I'm still charmed these few months later. She's a special human being with a...

That's all a secret

Dear friends, Before I send each letter and polaroid out I scan them. It's a way of hanging on while I let go. Occasionally I revisit them to remember what I wrote to someone, to blush at what I...

Soon...

It's been a while, I know. There is so much to post. Soon. Promise. ​If you want to hear from me in a more personal way, let me write you a letter and send you a polaroid just for you... A Personal...

Be a tender pervert

I was called this once, a tender pervert, by a friend of mine. I see it as a calling, an aspiration. Tender pervert. Perhaps it's one for you, too (it should be). Another friend of mine once told...

before forgetfulness had set in

"And then the girl appeared on the balcony standing over the afternoon that was as much hers as her room with its unmade bed where every man believed he had loved her once before forgetfulness had...

I had that good California feeling

I knew who you were though I didn't know your name. I was leaning against a purple Mustang in a SoCal parking lot, and you were laughing with this "whoop-whoop" that went from mere aural landscape...

Epiphany

"The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts, the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute."

When I see others dance, I dance too

The person standing apart in the corner of the room dances with all the dancers. He sees everything and because he sees, he experiences everything. When it comes down to it, it is just another...

Nossa Senhora do Leite

Baptism

“...et contra diáboli insídias pugnatúros, passiónis et resurrectiónis Fílii tui virtúte ab originális culpæ labe nunc erípas...” “Múniat te virtus Christi Salvatóris, in cuius...

Dear Woman

Random Rules

I shot some very expired Polaroid film yesterday. It's a roll of the dice. There's no controlling the results. Random rules.

Fullness

"All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable [...] The real thing smacks of that fullness of genuine and...

Until New Orleans...

My dear friend Nico has set off to New Orleans with her husband. I'm going to miss shooting her so damn much. I imagine that you'll miss seeing her. Here are some photos of her to keep you company...

They show that the eye especially demands completeness

"These phenomenon are of the greatest importance, since they direct our attention to the laws of vision, and are a necessary preparation for future observations on colours. They show that the eye...

It is always bad to foretell

"Now, it is bad, and I know no other definition of the bad, it is bad to predestine one's reading, it is always bad to foretell. It is bad, reader, no longer to like retracing one's steps." Jacques...

This is how to say goodbye to long, warm days

With open arms.

I have a message I'd like to send

Haunting your dreams I have a message I'd like to send Ripping at the seams I will not bow I will not bend I'm the stormy seas I'm the beginning I am the end Lyrics & pretty posing by Nikki...

Red is my favorite color

She's soft

We were each other's summer vacation

She looks like you but it couldn't be you because she is as old now as you were then. Which is as old as I am and that is not young now. But for a moment I pretend that now is then and turn around...

So lucky

​She arrived in high-waisted jeans and I knew it was going to work out. "I also have a denim jumpsuit in my bag," she said. ​Sometimes you get so lucky.

I've been hiding away

​I've been hiding away down under the equator, but I'll be reappearing soon with the piles of dreamy photos I've been making in the past few weeks. I don't think you'll want to miss these.

Instant Dreams

​I've been shooting like crazy over the last few days and here are some fresh dreams for you. I hope you find them as lovely as I do.