I got into film photography in 2015 when I bought an instant camera, and then got an old 35mm stereo camera as a novelty. It’s true that film is addictive because once I started I couldn’t stop. Most of these document the kinds of things I saw when I lived in San Francisco — the easy-to-overlook bits and pieces of the urban landscape that made it such a wonderful and weird place to be. I moved to New Orleans after that and found that there was simply less to photograph because everything there is on display. I wasn’t interested in photographing things that were competing for my attention so I fell out of the habit for a while, but I still like to take a camera out with me when I walk around a city. You never know what you’ll find.
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I met this jaunty gal in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2017. Isn’t she handsome? -
She was back the following year but with a different message. I think I love whoever lives in this house. -
When New Orleans went into lockdown I went out to take some snaps of the French Quarter with a wide-angle camera. -
The French Quarter in lockdown. -
The French Quarter in lockdown. -
Emperor Norton and the Countess Lola Montez making an impassioned plea for Ghirardelli to bring back their Emperor Norton Sundae. -
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The Temperance Society at the Dickens Fair in San Francisco. -
A mask maker at the Dickens Fair in San Francisco. -
A mask maker at the Dickens Fair in San Francisco. -
An ibis on George Street, Sydney. -
The Botanical Gardens, San Francisco. -
The Botanical Gardens, San Francisco. -
The Botanical Gardens, San Francisco. -
The Botanical Gardens, San Francisco. -
The Botanical Gardens, San Francisco. -
The Chronicle building on Mission Street, San Francisco. -
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans. -
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans. -
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“No Ceiling”, a mural in San Francisco by artist BiP. -
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Taken at the Women’s March, 2017 on redscale film. -
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On Columbus Day 2017 someone dramatically improved this statue of the man himself in Pioneer Park, San Francisco. -
I’d been at Pioneer Park to photograph the blood red sky as the sun set through the smoke of nearby bushfires. -
The statue of Christopher Columbus with the blood sun in the background. -
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A mural of a bat in San Francisco by artist Nychos. It’s almost impossible to get a good photo of this thing because, as far as I can tell, it’s been behind this construction fence since it was painted. -
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