Alexandria, Virginia · est. 2024
skog.studio is a personal practice — a place to think out loud about photographs and the things they sit beside: paintings, prints, the long history of how images get made and read.
The work here proceeds slowly and on its own clock. A photograph studied beside a Dutch still life. A test print pulled while reading about Prokudin-Gorsky's tricolor plates. Notes from a darkroom that is mostly a desk.
Skog is the Scandinavian word for forest — the slower kind of place. That seems about right.
Three strands run through the work, and they keep meeting one another in unexpected places — the chemistry of a print, the hand behind a 17th-century etching, the spectral physics of a satellite sensor.
From maritime work and the Coast Guard Auxiliary, through tall ships and the small disciplines of architectural photography. Camera as instrument, camera as notebook. OM System OM-5 and E-M10 III.
Working slowly through the Met's "How to Read" series and a shelf of nonfiction acquired direct from Yale, Harvard, Oxford, MIT, and Penn. Reading as a way of seeing the way other people have seen.
Pigment ink on baryta. The translation from luminous screen to a physical surface that can be held, framed, hung. Epson Legacy Baryta as the working stock; archival paper as the working ground.
A studio simulation of multispectral satellite imaging, built from a tabletop and a set of globes. Each planet is photographed three times — through red, green, and blue gel filters — then reassembled by channel in the manner of Prokudin-Gorsky's 1907 plates and the false-color composites of Landsat and Sentinel-2.
An exercise in how an image gets made: light separated into wavelengths, sensed in grayscale, and stitched back together by hand.
View the projectA long-form photographic record of the tall ships gathering for Virginia's contribution to the United States 250th-anniversary commemorations. Working from on-water platforms and shore alike, with the Coast Guard Auxiliary at the periphery.
In planningThe bookshelf grows mostly through publisher sales — Yale, Harvard, Oxford, MIT, Penn. The Met's "How to Read" series is the steady throughline; everything else circles around it.
For inquiries about prints, project collaborations, or the slow exchange of letters about pictures and the books that surround them.
hello@skog.studio