Ian J Myers photographs the Vendée and Nantes on film. Personal essays, analog photography, and the occasional wrong turn.
Ten years of street photography in Nantes, one book: sit down, order the coffee, let the place come to you. IJM on the Streets is here as a PDF ebook.
Read the essayThis One Is Mine: Shooting a Praktica MTL3 Again
My son was off to forge a knife, so I dropped him…
Utah Beach, and the road to Strasbourg
Last of three, and the one that surprised me. I went to…
Sainte-Mère-Église
Forty minutes up the road from Pointe du Hoc, and a completely…
Pointe du Hoc
Back to Normandy after seven years, and this time west into the…
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A photographer, horn player, and writer living in the Vendée, near Nantes, in western France. Since 2019 I've been writing about photography, the places I wander, and what it means to look carefully at the world.
The camera changes, the looking doesn't.
Forty years behind the lens. Six years writing it down. A guide to film photography, light, and seeing.