Not for social media

Nile Rodgers said Daft Punk told him they wanted to make Random Access Memories as if the internet never existed.

I was watching the documentary and I wrote that down. Then I wrote underneath it: my photos are not taken for social media.

I've known this for a while. Writing it down made it clearer.

The problem with shooting for a platform is that you don't notice it happening. You start thinking about what works. What got a response last time. The framing that people paused on. And slowly you drift toward making that thing again. It stops being about what you see and starts being about what will read.

My photos are meant to be printed. That's been true since before I had a name for what I was doing. On a screen, details get lost. A reflection becomes a blur. Light that took a specific moment to happen turns flat. On paper it comes back. You have to slow down to look at it. You can't scroll past it.

I shoot with that in mind — that one day these will be on a wall or in someone's hands. Not in a feed, between two other images, competing for three seconds of attention.

That's not a statement against the internet. It's just where these photos actually live.

Vol. 01 is a collection of 24 photographs from Malé — made to be printed. Available in the shop.