Contemporary Art | Post-Digital Contact Sheets

This series explores the space between two eras: the tactile world of analog photography and the immediacy of the digital age.

As a Xennial, I grew up watching my father develop black and white film in our home darkroom. I saw contact sheets emerge slowly in trays, frame by frame, and learned to understand photography through patience, chemistry, and physical craft.

Today, I document my life through a cellphone, the lens of our time. I don’t view digital images as lesser; I see them as a continuation of what came before. These contemporary contact sheets merge those experiences, presenting digital moments inside structures inspired by traditional film processes.

This work comes from living in two parallel realities:
the analog past that shaped my foundation,
and the digital present I create within.

The series becomes a study of observation, memory, and transition.
Not nostalgia but continuity.

Created in honor of my father, whose darkroom taught me how to see, these post digital contact sheets embrace the evolution of photography and the shifting tools we use to record our lives.

The Observer | Contact Sheet Series