Orochrome is my workshop for analogue photographic experiments: orotones on glass, carbon transfer, calotypes on washi, and other processes that were almost lost when photography went digital. I make objects that change as you move around them—gold and silver catching light, layered images revealing themselves over time.
This site brings those physical pieces into a coherent structure: galleries, close reading of processes, and a few carefully selected digital editions. I’m not trying to recreate the work on screen so much as give you enough of an encounter to decide if you want to see, handle, or live with the originals.
1837 — Calotype Process Patented
Nozushi Footfall
An 18 × 24 cm calotype, made in a field in France in 2024 with a 19th century view camera. The machine once required two massive steam traction engines to pull it across these same fields. Silver salts, paper, light — unchanged since William Henry Fox Talbot, 1837.
2026 — NFT Orotone, glb file for AR
Nozushi Footfall
The same image, reborn. The calotype was transferred using the carbon process onto a glass surface, then sealed beneath a varnish of golden powder — an orotone. That object was scanned and cast as a three-dimensional form: haptic photography, a surface you can rotate, touch, and read.
In 1961 I worked on the first silicon computers. each transitor was in a small TO18 can not much smaller than a CPU today, just one switch. Today an M4 chip will have 24 billion transistors. I can imagine etching billions of chips onto fumed silica suspended in a magnetite matrix "blob", a "photograph" becomes an object with weight, texture and surface — something a blind person can read with their fingertips.
The distance between those two moments is not a career. It is a single, unbroken question about what light pressed into matter can mean.
Editions & Galleries
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