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Analog Nostalgia
In the 90s, I was walking the streets of SF with a manual SLR and a pocket full of film, obsessed with stencil art spray-painted…
People Who Don’t Exist (But Should)
Populating Empty Spaces With AI At Assemblage.studio, we were recently handed an architectural shot of a cafe that needed to be full of people. The…
When Metal Gets More Love Than Skin
The Split Personality of Modern Retouching There's a strange tension in commercial photography right now, and if you're paying attention, you can see it in…
The Retoucher’s Revenge
For decades, the retoucher's job was elimination. Remove the blemish. Erase the dust. Clone out the distraction. Make it cleaner, smoother, more perfect than reality…
Building worlds from borrowed light
Why Your Hands Matter More Than the Truth I recently finished a project where I took photographs of deserted Havana streets—beautifully shot by Cade Martin…
