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Dispatches from the intersection of Photography and Temporality.

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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Eating the elephant (opens the original)

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    September, at long last. I feel the pull towards autumn more each day, a kind of speeding up before an abrupt slowing down.The kids are back in school. The days have become lopsided. I rolled my ankle and my shoes don’t fit. I’m walking less, but I’m driving with the windows down more. I have all these thoughts and ideas, but hardly the time to make them happen. My list of photos to make is longer than the pool of photos I’ve made this month. I drove around the city for a couple of hours on Mond

  2. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    An open letter to the Board of Directors of the Maryland State Fair (opens the original)

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    <img alt="r/maryland - AI image wins first prize in State Fair Photo Contest" class="sizing-normal" height="1565" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y-49!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2

  3. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    On disconnectedness (opens the original)

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    A few thoughts on disconnectedness.Reservoir Hill is a neighborhood in West Baltimore comprised of stately Italianate and Victorian rowhouses. After long years of economic hardship, population loss, and urban decay, it is reviving in leaps and bounds. To get to the next neighborhood over without a car— Remington, an equally rebounding neighborhood full of shops and restaurants and bakeries and book stores—one must cross the Big Jump. That is a nearly half-mile long bridge spanning the Jones Fall

  4. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    The dog days are over (opens the original)

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    I used to think the dog days of summer had something to do with the heat. In my mind, they were the year’s hottest stretch, when an indolent hound might think twice about the outdoors and flop on its side instead, tongue lolling, idling away the burning hours.Not so. The term comes from the rise of the Dog Star, Sirius (Greek for “scorching,” by the by), and covers July 3 through August 11.By any measure, those days are behind us. So on a warm Sunday afternoon, wedged between two storms, Patrick

  5. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    On Bandos (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ooxr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F008363f7-45c8-4e42-9ab1-d180359ddcd4_2400x1600.j

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