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.

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Trumspringa

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Symptomania

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

The Kick Drop

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Zverism

Treachery Of The Common

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave