About

After nearly a decade of "disrupting" things online that didn't need fixing in the real world, I’ve retired to the darkroom to focus on things that are decidedly more tangible. I’ve traded the "Move Fast and Break Things" mantra of Silicon Valley for the "Move Slow and Self-Indulge" world of fine art. Same ego, different medium.

Negative Motorworks is my analog penance; expensive, silver-halide snapshots of steel and carbon, made the hard way. 

This isn't a new hobby, I'm just modifying the lease on this money pit. For fifteen years photography has been my Sisyphean struggle - a masochistic charge to take the perfect photo, knowing full well that I’ll never deem anything of my own creation as such. 

To silence my inner critic, I’ve committed to publishing works that I deem "good enough" under this moniker in hopes that they might occupy an otherwise blank wall somewhere in the world. 

- James Imrie