2025 11 23
Allison. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2022. © Clayton Hauck
My wife (pictured) does not like this image. Clay (a published photographer) told me it’s his favorite image in my zine.
One of my big recent lessons has been that in practice, an image being good or bad has far less value than I’d previously placed upon it. More important to the work, I’m learning, is the context in which the specific image is placed. Is it alone on a print or in the middle of a book? Is it resting in a blog page with words below it or included in a web portfolio?
My first zine project (Pointing at Stuff 001, available now!) was very much a working lesson in world building and narrative forming. I won’t tell you I’m a master at thees things just yet, but I now feel like I’ve got at least one foot on the foundation and am excited to see where the next step takes me.
-Clayton
2025 11 13
Allison. Chicago, Illinois. December 23, 2022. © Clayton Hauck
Have I mentioned I have a zine out now with the same name as this blog? I guess, since this blog didn’t yet exist in the days the images from the blog were made, I should share a few more of the images that are in the book but not yet on the website. Right? Mostly because I am behind on my posts and this seems like a relatively easy way to “catch up.”
-Clayton
PS if interested you can snag the zine here for the low price of twenty dollars!
2025 09 14
Allison. Chicago, Illinois. July, 2025. © Clayton Hauck
Today is the one-year anniversary of our wedding. Off to celebrate, a bit!
-Clayton
2025 04 02
Allison, wondering how long I will be looking at used photobooks. Powell’s Books. Chicago, Illinois. September, 2024. © Clayton Hauck
Today is officially the day we started a photobook shop. Or, at least, committed to a popup to explore the idea of starting a photobook shop! You gotta pop it up first to gauge interest, learn, and grow into what will hopefully be a physical location one day. More on this soon, hopefully!
-Clayton
2025 02 14
Allison in moonlight. Douglas, Michigan. October, 2024. © Clayton Hauck
Happy Valentines to my forever valentine, Allison. xoxo
-Clayton