I'm building a database of photography assistants in Amsterdam to make it easier for myself and other photographers to hire assistants for paid shoots.
If you're an assistant and want to be included, please fill out this form: forms.gle/yamygM6ggZbj...
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Honored to be invited by NPO1 / Omroep Zwart to write an audio essay on a photographer I admire. I chose Mary Ellen Mark. 🎙️
Listen here (in Dutch): www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d...
The English version will be in my newsletter Process this Sunday.
I wrote about **How to Stay Creative When Life Gets Busy**, plus some first test shots with my new (old) digital camera from 2009.
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Yessss
Another happy Process Giveaway winner ❤️ sign up here: www.readprocess.co
New review for my book NOTICE Journal, Volume One in this week’s EO Visie magazine ❤️ wait what you don’t have a copy yet? There’s not that many left, grab one now if you can, would love for it to live in your home ❤️ www.wesley.co/shop/p/new-b...
Helaas helaas helaas, triest
I’m also worried about the uk situation, same reason
My most naive belief was thinking social progress followed a straight, upward path. As a young person, I thought that once LGBTQ+ rights advanced, and everyone wised up, we’d move on to the next set of civil rights, which would also seem foolish not to grant in hindsight. But it’s a permanent fight.
Jiskefet, toch? Please?
Photographs can be time machines.
Five years ago, I photographed my father and his siblings using a slow, stubborn large-format camera.
I wasn’t in a rush to share, but after some recent health scares in the family, I feel their weight even more.
More here: wesley.substack.com/p/178-a-port...
Ze zouden het toch eigenlijk wat minder lomp overduidelijk moeten maken, zo’n stukje oud-Nederlands double speak.
Remember guestbooks? You’d visit a museum and write your name and where you visited from. Or you ended up on a Pink Floyd tribute Geocities: “I was here, I found your page, hello!”
Treat the comments like that today. Don’t just like. Words make people feel seen and validated. Likes mean nothing.
There's a unique magic in expired film—unexpected hues, textures, and stories waiting to be told in unusual ways. Here are some faves. Dive into my latest newsletter to see why I'm passionate about this unpredictable medium. wesley.substack.com/p/177-why-i-... 📷✨ #AnalogLove #Photography
Wesley Verhoeve is such a talented photographer, and very generous sharing about his process. I recommend following him and his Process feed.
Tomorrow: Why I Love Shooting Expired Film (and You Should Too) + a big expired film giveaway (readprocess.co)
If you're into #photography, you'll enjoy @readprocess.co's first curated collection on Flipboard. This eight-story roundup extends the themes in his book, NOTICE, and explores the power of observation and virtues of patience in the craft.
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Some solid unfollowing today with some male photographers suddenly posting semi-erotic analog red hat selfies
A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.
This week’s Process newsletter is about (re)igniting the joy of photography—8 simple ways to make it fun again. Tip 1: carry a small camera everywhere you go. For me, it was the Ricoh GRiiix, on loan from @mpbcom.bsky.social
Check out the newsletter for the full list of tips (link in bio)
Already read and loved it :) so cool, and same experience for me! I kind of want to play it again now! It’s still fun!
Just introduced my 9 year old nephew to the original Prince of Persia game which I LOVED but he found it too hard and he showed me current games he plays and they were so much easier. Is this a thing, modern kid games being easier? Or was PoP just hard?
Another day, another young artist scammed by Amsterdam’s most disingenuous and heartless gallery owner.
I wrote down 8 thoughts on how to resist the sameness we see in creative world these days thanks to algorithms.
Would love your thoughts. Fully explained here: open.substack.com/pub/wesley/p...
Weekly for me!
I love being a member of a library so much.
remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
Seeing a lot of OG Instagram users with significant audiences and top user names announcing they’re deleting their account after the recent meta announcements and I get it. Big mask off moment.
Holy moly unexpected twists left and right this one. 4.5/5
It absolutely delivered and now I’m half-way through Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister and wow also a huge recommendation