This is Ten Minute Exposure. I’m Michael Wriston.
I am a freelance social landscape photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Alongside Patrick Joust, I co-host the monthly Baltimore Photo Book Club and Print Exchange at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
My work has been featured in Oxford American Magazine, CFYE, Ain’t Bad, Photography Chronicle, and a few other purveyors of photography. Daniel Agee once did a nice feature on my night work for Glass. You can watch that here. Michael Howard interviewed me for the Foto Podcast, which you can listen to here.
What this is:
Ten Minute Exposure is a weekly essay about photography, observation, and ennui.
It’s not a how-to guide. It’s not a gear review. It’s not an argument for shooting film or an ode to darkroom purity. I have no preset packs to offer. I do not wear a beanie.
Actually, now that I think about it, this might not really be a newsletter about photography at all.
It’s a newsletter about existentialism, featuring photographs.
You may send me money in the form of a monthly or annual subscription. In doing so, you won’t join a thriving community of photographers trading tips or presets. You will, however, put coffee in my veins and occasionally fund the ill-advised rescue of urban hermit crabs—written and photographed by a man irredeemably in love with wandering, sodium vapor lights, and talking to strangers. IIn return, I’ll mail you a handwritten thank-you postcard, in the form of one of my prints.
That’s the pitch.
