Azimut Brutal Chaos is my routine — a part of the "In search of the one true self" quest …

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Beach boys in Picardie
Beach boys in Picardie

They need long sleeves! Shot with a Bessa R4A and a 21mm on Agfa APX100 (very badly) souped in Rodinal standing 1/100. …

For you went away…

Celebrating the anniversary of the death of all false hopes… But death is just another beginning, and I do not mean that in a stupid new-age kinda shit. Fuck that. (Originally shot with an Olympus OM2-MD, a 35mm lens and an extension tube, on hp5+ @  1600iso on a very suitable rainy day in Vancouver [...]

Ropy stuff
Ropy stuff

This being a shot from the archive vault. Some extremely scary and unsettling amount of old rotting rope somewhere close-by the remnants of ski facilities in the mountains of Bulgaria, in October 2007. Do not ask the whys and whats of my presence there, I have a shady past, at best. The camera is the [...]

Ego

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand depreciative words… Shot with a Hasselblad 500CM and a 80mm 2.8 lens on hilford hp5+@400iso in a bathroom with multiple mirrors. These are fun. …

Clearance
Clearance

On the conversion of feet and inches to a decent sensible system… With the Olympus OM2-MD and the 35mm 3.5 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… …

Sta(r)ring at the night
Sta(r)ring at the night

That was after hitting the pretty well hidden secret bar on Main St., with the Bessa r3m and the 50mm 2.0 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… …

Straight into the fog
Straight into the fog

Shot along the coastal highway in Oregon, USA with a Bessa r3m and the 50mm 2.0 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… …

Back to the roots?
Back to the roots?

I hope you, ô reader, will forgive me for the title… Taken/shot close by Tofino BC (on the west coast of Vancouver Island) with a Bessa r3m and the 50mm 2.0 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… I like the tonal range for an otherwise pretty contrasty picture. …

Walking the plank
Walking the plank

This being one of my new favourite place on Earth… In the middle of a swamp or a marsh or whatever you want to call it. I love the dead (and not so dead) old western redcedar, the eagles, the ravens and the crows, the water, the plants, all this range of living being making [...]

Shanghai – Old town
Shanghai - Old town

Shot in Shanghai during summer of 2008, while wandering the old part of town with Ying (one can check her nice work on flickr) and the Precious… All rolls from that trip were dutifully souped in standing rodinal when back home, some one month after.

The night
The night

It is no secret that I am a big fan of Michael Ackerman‘s work… Well, enough said, right? … Taken in the Copenhagen nights of June 2011, during the days of the photo festival, with an Olympus OM2-MD, at night, yes. It was souped in rodinal, standing dev., blabla…

Welcome to the fall
Welcome to the fall

Take this invitation Bishops Queen to Pawn All of us were taken All that was is gone Of this information Shames us one and all Where’s my compensation? Watching others fall Welcome to the fall Everything is useless Nothing works at all Nothing ever matters Welcome to the fall Welcome to the fall Welcome to [...]

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Shot in Daejeon, South Korea, somewhen at night while stumbling from shady bar to shady bar, fuelled with soju or some other substance (I didn’t know about magkali at that time, fortunately or not) and trying to get back to the hotel …

An old man in Tripoli, Lebanon
An old man in Tripoli, Lebanon

This old man is probably repairing a kettle of some sort (actually not, see comments). He was doing it out of a small shop — barely a closet in the wall, to be fair — and was kind enough to let me take his portrait. I like his stare, very profound and serene. I like [...]

With the BOP master of abandoned buildings
With the BOP master of abandoned buildings

That’s a shot from the archive, during the fled/escape from Denmark to my den in southern France. I met with BOP member Arnaud Thurel (aka Th) and he took me around Grenoble, France for a ride in his evergoing quest for abandoned buildings/factories… This was shot with The Precious, i.e. the amazing Olympus PenF and [...]

He was playing for his soon-to-be-born kid
He was playing for his soon-to-be-born kid

The title says it all… Good luck with that new life in front of you man. This has been taken with an Olympus OM2-MD and a 35mm 2.8 lens, I am not very used to the 35mm, me being more of a 50mm guy. Learning, i.e. need to get closer.

The streets of San Francisco, at night
The streets of San Francisco, at night

It could have been at the end of the 20s or the 50s… Taken in a side street of the Mission district, at night then, with the Olympus OM2-MD. The film is your typical Ilford HP5+ (developed by my new local lab, as I still have to set my bathroom-type Rodinal standing souping facility) One [...]

Wine and fire
Wine and fire

No song but still missing the woman… (This being a reference to an album by Porn aka Men of Porn, website here. I strongly recommend listening to the album.) This was shot during what will be known as The Night of the Boar Burger from now on. And I was indeed missing the woman, dearly.

Phone
Phone

Shot in Bankeråt, Copenhagen, Denmark probably one night of drinking, I sort of remember it was during December 2010. The film is the magnificent Scala black & white slide, surely here shot at 1600iso or something approaching …

I’ve lost the horizon again …
I've lost the horizon again ...

Shot in Hongdo island, somewhere in the south west of South Korea. A tiny island with friendly fishermen and good seafood. I like the way the horizon disappears, maybe it was not even there in the first place …

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