Mitchel Lensink

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Building a daylight studio

This one is for my Amersfoort folks. It goes Tjommies, OostWest 1, OostWest City, Van Zanten, OostWest, Van Zanten, OW, VZ, OW, VZ, Tjommies, OW, VZ, OW, VZ, OW, VZ

Covering

Walking every street of my hometown, Amersfoort, while photographing every nook and cranny. Documenting the things I see along the way.

It's all out there, right now

A good beach has white sand, they tell you. Preferably as finely grained as possible. Like a powder that's sprinkled on the edges of the land. The frosting on the cake, if you will.

The glorious, life-invigorating act of walking

When I first landed on Craig Mod's website and read he describes himself as a 'writer, photographer, and walker,' I was a little confused. What the hell does it mean to 'be a walker'?

My six favorite Fujifilm film simulation recipes

I think we can all agree that Fujifilm's film simulations are amazing. That's why I have created six film simulation recipes that have been living on both my Fujifilm X100V and X-Pro3 for the better part of a year now.


I’m Mitch — photographer, writer, and curious walker.
I document the world as I move through it, looking for what’s still good, and making something of that. I write a monthly newsletter called Dialogue, where I share thoughts on photography, walking and exploration. Right now, I’m walking every street of my hometown, mapping each step and capturing what I see. Want to follow along? See the project page →

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Dialogue: A monthly newsletter about photography, walking and exploration. Sometimes about other things as well.

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Closer: A weekly newsletter where I take one of my photos, ask AI to describe it, then see what kind of image it can generate from its own description—an ongoing experiment in the capabilities of AI, and what that means for humans.

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Active projects

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Covering

Walking every street of my hometown, Amersfoort, while photographing every nook and cranny. Documenting the things I see along the way.

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Dialogue (Newsletter)

A monthly newsletter about photography, walking and exploration. Sometimes about other things as well.

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Closer (Newsletter)

A weekly newsletter where I explore AI’s interpretation of my photography through description and image generation.

Inactive projects

Dialogue (Blauwdruk exhibition) For my second time participating in the group-exhibition 'Blauwdruk 033' in my hometown, Amersfoort, I wanted to do something special. I'm bringing my monthly newsletter from the digital, to the analog space.
The Efflorescence A documentary project about Dutch festival and club culture finding its way back to relevance during pandemic times.
Monologue A full year of daily writing. My 365 project of 2021.
Do You Register? ‘DO YOU REGISTER?’ is a registration of modern day life in its purest form. There’s no editing, no fancy camera movement, no narrative, no beginning, no end. It’s a direct peek into life in the 21st century.
One Two One A black and white square-format photography project made during the winter of 2020/2021.
Winter Allotment A small photography project, shot in one afternoon in the waning winter sun. Focussing on the hidden beauties of a communal allotment garden.
The Silence Around Panorama photos that allowed people to take a step back from the hectics of modern life.
Closer #018 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

The second-to-last edition of this experiment within an experiment, where AI gets to not only describe the image, and then generate an image based on said description, but also determine how to describe the image. Succes, finally?

Closer

Crossing

A walk from one edge of a city to the other — west to east, north to south. A straight line through a place to see what connects its opposite sides.

Walking
Closer #017 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

After this week, there's two more editions of the same image being described in different ways. Thankfully, because it's not bringing us anywhere. But that's interesting to note in itself too.

Closer
Closer #016 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

We are sixteen weeks into this experiment, and I'm unsure if this is still providing value. This is the third week we let AI decide how to prompt and the results are... well, you be the judge.

Closer
Closer #015 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

Week two of our 'experiment within an ongoing experiment' where AI is not only doing the image description and generation, but is also deciding the prompting to get to that description.

Closer
Closer #014 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

Hey, so, thought: you know how we're already generating AI-images, based on AI-descriptions of real life images, right? What if... we also asked ChatGPT how to properly ask for those descriptions? Would that make it better?

Closer
Closer #012 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

Imagine a cat behind a closed door, only paws and nose peeking from under the small crack between the door and the floor. Now imagine it again. How different are those results? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

Closer
Closer #011 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

We all know things can get weird in AI image land. But what if you give it a weird image? Will we get twice the weirdness or will they balance each other out?

Closer

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