Frames, notes,
between assignments.

A loose journal — process notes, behind-the-scenes, and the occasional very long caption. Updated when we have something worth saying, which works out to about twice a month.

Behind-the-scenes from a portrait session, golden hour light

A four-frame sequence from the second hour with the Owusu-Nkrumah family.

Feature · May 2026 · 7 min read

An afternoon with the Owusu-Nkrumah family.

Three generations in one living room, late afternoon light coming through the louvered window at exactly the wrong angle, a piano that we ended up using as a tripod, and one frame — the second one, before anyone had warmed up — that we knew immediately would be the one above the mantel. A short essay on what we noticed in the hour before we started shooting.

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Process · April 2026

Why we deliver one hundred and forty frames.

An argument, possibly impolitic, for editing harder. What happens to a wedding gallery between the seven hundred frames we shoot and the one hundred and forty we send.

Editorial cover-style portrait, gold light

Field note · March 2026

Three days on assignment in Lagos.

A weekend on a magazine commission across Lagos Island — what worked, what didn't, the cheap zoom we ended up loving, and the one frame that nearly didn't make it through customs.

Photographer reviewing frames on the back of a camera

Tools · February 2026

Why a fixed 35mm, still.

A long, slightly stubborn defence of the lens Selasi has used for nine years and shows no signs of putting down — and what it teaches every photographer who tries it for a month.

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