Jun 2026
Craft
6 min
Why I still shoot sodium on film
Digital sensors read sodium light as a sickly green and fight you the whole way. Film just accepts it, and the acceptance is the picture.
Journal
Notes from the field
Where a series came from, what the shoot was actually like, and the mistakes worth admitting to. Updated when there is something true to say.
Journal
Notes from the field
Where a series came from and what the shoot was actually like.
Mar 2026
Field notes
9 min
Twelve tides, one beach, one exposure each
Low Water was supposed to take a weekend. It took a month, because a thirty-minute exposure gives you exactly one chance per tide.
Nov 2025
Light
5 min
The eight minutes that matter
There is a blue after sunset that a camera can hold and the eye cannot. It lasts eight minutes and it is the only reason I own a tripod.
Aug 2025
Essay
7 min
On photographing buildings that are famous
Everyone has seen the Unité. The job is not to take the photograph again. It is to wait until it stops performing for the camera.
Contact
Tell me the place
The location, the deadline, and roughly the budget. All three, ideally: the third one saves us both a week of politeness.
Commissions
studio@noctis.photo
Prints
prints@noctis.photo
Based
Rotterdam, travelling
Elsewhere
Instagram · Are.na