A working photographer’s notebook
Meditations on process, craft, and what images mean when you make them slowly.
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It’s always something…
I went out on a sojourn last weekend, and, well, I grabbed the pinhole. Why? I don’t know. What did Scrooge say? “An undigested bit of beef, a blot of…
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Destination Track 6 – More than memory lane.
A hundred-year-old railcar, a platform I used to arrive at as a kid, and a Sally Mann quote about photographing how you feel instead of what you see. I went…
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The Disruption That Wasn’t
The building itself looked like it had been making things for over a hundred years, probably because it had. Multi-story brick, freight elevators, the kind of Chicago industrial space with…
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purchased failure – film, serendipity and a new age
ProCam in Aurora is my camera store now and they just got a film refrigerator. I haven’t seen one in fifteen years, maybe more. When I walked past it recently, I…
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A Lost Roll of Film: What Old Photographs Can Teach Us About Time
While developing film in my darkroom, I discovered faces I hadn’t seen in over twenty years—my wife, our firstborn, and family gathered in Florida. That forgotten roll became a time…
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Recent Posts
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A little trimester break shopping.
A little trimester break shopping. #wehmeierportraits #vscocam #iphone #iphonography #blackandwhitephotography…
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Concert night at Augie.
Concert night at Augie. #wehmeierportraits #augustana #vscocam #iphonography #iphone #blackandwhite…
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River Sign
#wehmeierportraits #iphonography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #locked #bridge #chicagoriver #signs
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Summer’s last light.
Summer’s last light. #wehmeierportraits #michigan #iphone #iphonography #vscocam #beach #lakemichigan
About
Rob Wehmeier is a photographer based in Orland Park, Illinois. His commercial career began in 1986; he has worked full-time in Chicago since 1991. This site is where the work outside the two businesses lives — the analog practice, the writing, the made things.
Our Portrait Site – Wehmeier Portraits Our Commercial Site – Wehmeier Photography, Ltd.