PHOTO:
Fish out of Water
2026
Original Cyanotype Prints in Handmade Hemlock Frames / Digitally Printed Perfect Bound Book
The result is Fish Out of Water, an exploration of perspective, discomfort, and what happens when you limit yourself to one way of seeing.
A fisheye is a strange lens to live with. There’s no zooming in, no backing off and cropping later, and no real way to hide from the fact that if you want something to fill the frame, you have to get close. Sometimes uncomfortably close.
Pair that with film, where there’s no checking the back of the camera to see if anything worked, and the whole process starts to feel a little unnatural.
From cover to cover, the book moves through new places, new environments, and different ways of working within those limitations. Some frames lean into the distortion, some fight against it, and some only started to make sense once I got back into the darkroom.
Printing more than 50 cyanotypes by hand meant spending a lot of time with every image. That process opened up another part of the project too - seeing where lines could bend into one another, where two separate frames and perspectives could start to feel connected, and where the distortion could turn two photographs into something that almost reads as one.