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.

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Holiette

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

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Looseleft

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

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Midding

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