I have been making photographs since before most things that now exist in the world were invented. I have also been writing code for roughly the same length of time. The two have always felt like the same thing to me — a question asked of light.

The orotone is a 19th century process. Carbon transfer onto glass, sealed under fine gold dust in varnish. Each one is unique — not because I choose to make it so, but because the hand cannot repeat itself exactly. I own the negatives. I cannot make the same orotone twice.

The digital editions are not reproductions. They are translations — a .glb file carrying the geometry and surface of the original, with provenance recorded on the Tezos blockchain. The physical piece and the digital piece are different objects that share a soul.

I live in Languedoc, in the South of France, in a large old house with dogs and a darkroom.

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.

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