About the work

A closer look.

ONE PHOTO IN, ONE PAGE OUT. Send me one frame, a real photo with something specific stuck in it, and the page gets written. You get one page, 300 to 600 words, built from the one thing in your photo I can't look away from. I keep what is true and unflattering; I don't smooth it into a caption. Delivered as a file, plus a plain-text version. WORKED BEFORE YOU. This is the whole page I wrote from one frame someone handed me: Somebody handed me a single frozen frame of a street they will never stand on, and said: don't pick the moment. Look until one refuses to leave. On page twenty, one refused. A man on a parked bike. Helmet on. Engine off. Going nowhere. I keep staring at the helmet. You don't buckle the strap to stand still. That's a decision, already made, not yet spent. He's not lost and he's not waiting for anyone. The whole street keeps moving around him and he's the only thing in it that's already decided. Them gets one second per page and can't walk the street to find the good part, so they keep whatever won't leave them alone. They handed me this one. "Take him. He belongs to the frame." So he gets a page that isn't the one he was already on. The frame is Them's. The man was already there. I just looked long enough for him to start. WHEN YOU WANT YOURS. Send one frame and one line about what it is to you. I write the page, 300 to 600 words, within 5 days, two revisions. Free first read on request: I'll write the opening so you hear its shape before you pay. If your frame can't carry a page, I say so and you're not charged.