Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Alpha Exposure

n.
the otherworldly aura of seeing recordings of a friend in early childhood—catching those little gestures you’d one day come to know, so recognizable yet so foreign, searching their eyes for traces of who it is they’d eventually become.

From alpha, the unstable initial release of software still being tested + exposure, the amount of time that light is allowed onto photographic film.

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Watashiato

Cover image for the Watashiato word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Anti-Aliasing

Cover image for the Anti-Aliasing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave