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The Damage Is the Document

Why the marks you remove are so often the ones that were yours

Believe in Your Audience

Every offer of your work confesses what you believe about the person receiving it, and attention is the first currency your work is ever paid in.

The Frame You Cannot Explain

Why the photograph you made by accident knows more about your voice than everything you have made on purpose.

Why Beauty Was Never the Subject

The most honest photograph you will ever make is probably of the most ordinary thing in your life.

Your Eye Was Never Yours to Begin With

On AI, worth, and the one frame that is still unmistakably yours...

The Story You Tell Before They Look

The most useful feedback you will ever get is the thing nobody meant to tell you.

Where the Work Lives

A new home for the podcast, the book club, and everything we’re building next.

What Are You Willing to See?

The question every photographer has to answer eventually...

The Mirror

Reviewing the Chico Review 2026 (part 2)

The Room

Reviewing the Chico Review 2026 (part one)