Monday Mix 6/12/23
Happy Mondays, everybody! Hope you had a peaceful weekend. I spent part of mine messing around with some photographs for my book. My plan has been to document the loaves as I develop them so that I don’t have to do a massive photoshoot at the end of the process, but I need to work out a consistent aesthetic before I do so. I also have the (possibly deluded) plan to shoot many of the images on film. Before I was thrust into this full-time bread thing a few years ago, I had another equally passionate hobby in photography, but I have had almost no time to devote to it.
Back then my subject was mostly people, not food, but right now I have little time to make portraits, so instead using the book images as a place to make art. Yesterday I made some test images using my ride-or-die camera, a Mamiya RZ67, on color film and peel-apart instant film (as in the top image). The latter is one of my favorite media, one that hasn’t been made since 2018, meaning every shot I make is one closer to the last I will ever shoot. I have a stash of peel-apart in my fridge, but it won’t keep forever, so I’ve decided this book is as good a use for it as any other.
What did everyone else get up to this weekend?
—Andrew
That peel-apart instant film image looks EXTREMELY cool. This weekend I baked a loaf of bread I've baked dozens of times (Ken Forkish's standard loaf, from Evolutions in Bread) and uh, I guess I need reading glasses more than I thought I did, because I used 580 grams instead of 380, and then spent some time trying to fix it, and it was a good exercise is bread-baking intuition (trying to fix it) but the resulting loaf was pretty mediocre.
Also, every time I see anything about Night Moves Bread I get so excited. Her new bakery is a 10-minute walk from my house and I am super excited about it. Every time I walk by with my dog I press my face against the window.
the peel image is brilliant! i vote for more for your book! thank you for all your hard work!!