01●From archive to finished work.
A walk from the full catalog to the things it becomes: read down from thousands of frames to a sequence, then shaped for wherever it is headed. Every frame here comes from the archive itself.
The Process
Reading the archive down.
Before anything is built, the tool passes over the whole catalog and narrows it to a working sequence — the raw material every destination is shaped from.
Step 01
The Haystack
the scale of it
The Problem
The archive that
outgrew you.
Hundreds of these frames deserve a place in print. The work isn't deciding what to keep — it's finding the strongest among the keepers, and seeing how they sequence into a publication.
12,418Final edits
7,451Keepers
596Top tier
Curation objectives
The widest pass — every frame in the archive, judged on craft and the weight of the moment, nothing pre-sorted by theme or city. From 12,418 final edits it holds 7,451 as keepers and marks the 596 strongest as top tier. This is the pool every other curation is drawn from.
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Step 02
Many → Few
read down to a sequence
From shortlist to authored vision
Identified Keepers
7,451 keepers read
Curate
The sequence it found
6 of 7,451
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Curation objectives
From a long shortlist, six frames that read as one eye rather than six places. The filter favored quiet human moments over spectacle, kept to the top keeper tier, and balanced the range across cities. What holds the set together is restraint.
The Destinations
Where the work ends up.
A few of the places a finished selection goes. Some are made to be shown, others to be sent out: a collective, a jury, a gallery, a buyer. Each is put together for its own purpose, so no two pull the same frames.
Output 01 · Motion
The Story
→ a short film, ready to post
You asked
“Build me a short Story on the rhythm of the street — Lisbon and New York.”
City Rhythms
Story v1 · 17 March 2026
6Frames
0:26Runtime
Lisbon · NYCities
01City Rhythms
02The city keeps its own time
03After the last train
04Strangers in the same current
05Keep moving
06@unseen.editionsA question becomes a finished Story — sequenced and captioned, with per-frame motion, transitions, and a music cue, ready to post.
Output 02 · Print
The Zine — Gathered
→ a Publications page
The brief
A printed sequence
A printed sequence
in four acts.
The curation reads the archive as a body of work and lays it out as spreads — full-bleed where an image should dominate, paired where two frames speak to each other, breathing where the sequence needs a rest.
27 pages · 2023–2025 · Boston · Frankfurt · New York · Seoul · Stockholm · Tokyo
ACT IEmpty Spaces
ACT IINear Each Other
ACT IVCollective Force
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Output 03 · Submission
The Portfolio
→ membership application to a collective
The brief
Street Photography Collective
A membership collective that admits photographers by portfolio review. The ask: submit ten frames that prove a consistent eye across cities — honesty, timing, and human presence over spectacle.
Why this setThe tool scored every frame against the collective's stated values, then chose the ten that hold up individually and read as one voice — weighting craft and portfolio-fit, not social reach.
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3.99Avg score
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10Three more: an award series, a gallery hang, and editioned prints.
Output 04 · Submission
The Contest
→ a series entered to an award
Street Photo Competition 2026
Category: Series · 5 images · black & white
The brief
A juried series award. Submit five to ten images that hold together as a body of work, judged as a sequence rather than singles.
What the jury rewards
01Originality — a fresh perspective
02Technical excellence — light, composition
03Emotional impact — feeling before thought
04Storytelling — narrative across the set
Submission checklist
✓ Deadline · April 15, 2026
✓ JPEG · sRGB · ≤ 5 MB, 2000px min
✓ Series of 5–10 · statement ≤ 150 words
✓ Entry fee · $25 per series
A troupe of gnomes rides the rush hour guarding their treasure — a toilet. When a foil-clad knight moves to take it, they cut him down, all in mime, then carry the prize onto the platform as the police arrive to puzzle out a scene that has already ended. One unrepeatable piece of subway theater, and a car of strangers deciding, in the moment, whether to look.
— Draft statement · generated from the series, yours to edit
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Output 05 · Submission
The Exhibition
→ a hang planned for a gallery wall
The brief
Unlike the contest, this is a room: print sizes vary by wall, sequenced as a visitor walks through.
Street Visions 2026
Gallery 44, Stockholm · the decisive moment1Entry wall
Among the Puppets24×20"
2Left wall
The Crossing24×20"
3Feature wall
On the Sidewalk36×24"
4Right wall
Two at the Crossing30×20"
5Exit wall
Through the Sweets24×20"
Entry →
→ Exit
Output 06 · Sales
The Prints
→ editioned, priced, ready to acquire
The brief
Street Collection — Prints
On-demand fine-art printing · four edition tiers · shipping worldwide
The Incense
Tokyo, 20253:2 · Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 · Natural oak float mount
Open Edition16×20"∞$150
Limited /2524×20"25$420
Artist Proof24×30"5$720
One-of-One30×40"1$2,400
Lisbon Trams
Lisbon, 20253:2 · Canson Platine Fibre Rag · Black aluminum, white mat
Open Edition16×20"∞$165
Limited /2524×20"25$480
Artist Proof24×30"5$820
One-of-One30×40"1$2,800
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