Portrait of the photographer, standing in the desert

Fox

I photograph on film because film asks for patience. Thirty six frames, sometimes twelve. Each one has to be chosen before it is taken. That slowness changes the room. People stop performing and start being still, and stillness is where the honest picture lives.

Most of my work is made in quiet places with one person and available light. A window, a chair, a bed, a long silence. I am not looking for the dramatic moment. I am looking for the ordinary one that would otherwise pass unnoticed, held for a sixtieth of a second.

Everything here was shot on black and white negative stock and printed with as little intervention as possible. What the light did that day is what you see.