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Notes from
the studio floor
Short essays on the parts of the work nobody photographs: the edit, the proof, the paper and the long walk.
Featured · Process · 5 min
The edit is the work
1,100 frames in, 41 out. Why I think the most important tool I own is a waste-paper basket.
18 SEPT 2026 · Arin Kade
- 30 AUG 2026
On printing black
The difference between a black that is empty and a black that is full, and why it costs more paper than you think.
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- 02 AUG 2026
Why limited editions
How we size an edition, what the number on the back means, and what happens when it reaches zero.
3 min →
- 21 JUN 2026
The dojo taught me shutter speed
Three weeks with swordsmen in Osaka, and what a sixteenth of a second can hold.
4 min →
- 12 MAY 2026
Notes from a wet week
Seven nights of walking through the first monsoon week, written up the morning after each one.
3 min →
- 04 MAR 2026
A studio is a filter
What moving into a 600 sq ft mill unit did to the way I work.
3 min →
Studio letter