Project: Field Notes
A nine-month creative journey through the natural world — seen through a toy lens. Field Notes is a season of monthly themes, each one a way of looking: at edges and thresholds, at depth and reflection, at exposure and darkness, at what we build and what we keep.
You bring the miniature world; we name the questions for the month. The work happens where your plastic meets weather, water, light, and distance — and where your edit decides what deserves to survive.
May / June
Where two worlds meet. The shoreline, the frame, the threshold between light and shadow. Toy photography lives at edges — the miniature world pressed against the real one. This month we look for the margins. The in-between places where the most interesting things happen.
The image lives where one thing becomes another.
July
Depth, layers, what hides in plain sight. Scale becomes strange when you look up or down rather than straight ahead. This month we go into the dense and the dark — and find the light that makes it through.
Something is always watching from the shadows.
August
Reflection, flow, the surface that shows you something other than what's there. Still water holds the sky. Moving water blurs everything into feeling. This month we work with what reflects, refracts, and flows.
The surface is never just the surface.
September
The wide view. Repetition and variation. What survives in exposure. This month we step back, breathe out, and find the image that works with nothing to hide behind.
Emptiness is not absence. It is space for something to mean something.
October
What lies beneath. The unknown, the unreachable, the beautiful and indifferent. This month we go darker — in mood, in light, in subject. What does your world look like when you stop showing the surface?
The most interesting things don't come to the light.
November
The built world. Structure, geometry, the human hand in everything. Toy photography is already urban in its DNA — plastic was made in factories, not forests. This month we lean into that. Construction, repetition, the grid.
Everything built was once imagined.
December / January
Selection. What stays. What deserves to be printed and kept. This is not a new shoot — it's an edit. You return to the months behind you and ask: what is printworthy? The answer becomes your entry for the book and the exhibition consideration.
Not every image deserves to remain. The ones that do, you'll know.
February
Things that were frozen begin to move again. Emergence. The first light of a new creative cycle. This month carries everything learned in the months before it — and asks what grows from that.
After stillness, everything moves differently.
March / April
The culmination. Not a theme but a standard. The field notes are done. The image exists. Now it gets printed large, held in your hands, and hung on a wall at Vita Magasinet. This is what the whole journey was for.
This is what you came for.