Coastwork
An unplanned trip to Texel turned into a small field study of a coastline unlike any other. Being there, in the wind and water, brought back my fascination with the ocean and its edges.
Writing
A growing archive of observations on photography, movement, systems, creative work, and paying closer attention to the world.
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How to tell stories online
For years I thought I was simply exploring and taking photos. Only later did I realize I was repeating a pattern: go out, collect, return, interpret, publish, repeat. This issue maps the loop that turns wandering into a creative practice.
Mexico, a retrospective
A look at a country I like a lot, but no longer love. And "it's not you, it's me" I want to tell it, if countries had ears to hear it. Because it really is me and who I am today. But, who knows, another 10 years might do wonders.
Newer Topographics
Why take it upon myself to dedicate my time and energy towards a goal that isn’t even clearly visible from the beginning. Will it matter if I don’t? What do I contribute, do I want to contribute? Why? To what? Again, why?
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'?
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✦ September
252 | Walking the Grebbeliniepad (part 2)
The trail called me again. So I returned to it. Furthering the walked kilometers of the official paths. I took
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✦ September
251 | Walking the Grebbeliniepad
I should’ve done this way earlier. This afternoon, after a couple of hours of online research and general uncertainty
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✦ September
250 | Dear Bowie and Cobain
Dear Bowie and Cobain,
God, I remember how small you once were. And look at you now. No longer kittens
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✦ September
249 | How a robot turned me from a hobo to a bohemian
A few days ago, I purchased one of those little circular robotic vacuum cleaners
with the promise of never having
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✦ September
248 | I didn’t do anything today
I didn’t do anything today. Let’s keep like that.
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247 | Keeping it short
I’m keeping it short today by merely letting you know a new issue of Dialogue
[https://mitchellens.ink/dialogue]
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Archiving my work and doing the YouTube thing
This time, I wish to vent about the importance of building an archive for your work — a little on how I build mine — and a new YouTube video.
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✦ September
246 | Categorization, pun intended
How many cat photos can you pull off before people start to categorize (pun
intended) you as the pet photographer?
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✦ September
245 | Two minor things
It’s time. So far, only one color preset and one black and white preset have been living on my
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✦ September
244 | Dipping in and out until it's done
I’ve been dipping in and out of my Dialogue 004 draft for the past few days and
it’s
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✦ August
243 | To do or not
Ticking off as much as possible from my to do list today. Or shaving my yak a
little too much.
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✦ August
242 | Short and sweet is still sweet
Short and sweet is still sweet. Not sure if it can beat long and luscious but
not all days can
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241 | And the camera was there...
Hello again! This time from the other side of a much-needed 12-hour night’s rest. I am currently uncharacteristically sipping
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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.
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✦ August
240 | And the camera was there, here are the photos
Hello from the other side of what is currently my longest bike-ride ever! It was a leg-numbing headache-inducing experience but
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✦ August
239 | The camera was there
The camera was there the entire day. Going where I went, seeing what I saw.
Every time something significant happened,
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✦ August
238 | Please do not disturb me today
Please do not disturb me today. I am writing my newsletter, as promised.1
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1. Which basically means leaning
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✦ August
237 | Empty screen, eyelessly staring at me
Empty screen, eyelessly staring at me. Flickering cursor, taunting me with my
indecisiveness. One flash, two flashes, three. It’s