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4 days ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,I’ve spent the past few weeks trying to get my attention back. Not for the first time. Likely not for the last. This isn’t a big statement of digital purity. I still hit the Reddit button out of habit some days, and late-night scrolling hasn't been eradicated entirely. But I’ve been tinkering with a system that helps me manage my attention, and slowly it’s working.
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1 week ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,Every so often, it’s good to stop and ask: Why am I doing this? This week, I took a few hours to revisit the core idea behind Process, to remind myself what it’s really for, who it’s for, and why I keep showing up every Sunday. Below, I’ve written it all down below, in case you’re working on building your own creative practice or looking to reconnect with what matters in your work.
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2 weeks ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that I’ve been finding my flow state again in my portrait work, both in personal and client shoots. Even when the brief is classic and straightforward, something’s been shifting. I’ve been giving myself permission to push the creative edges a bit further.
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3 weeks ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,This week, I share a special and meaningful photo of my father, a moment from the archive I haven’t shared here before. Plus: I’m revealing the cover of The Best Medicine and continuing the countdown to the May 17th launch event at De Balie.
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1 month ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,This week’s issue is about building real connection in a world that often tries to flatten us into "content". It started with my early discomfort about how digital life shapes our attention and relationships, but it’s become something deeper: a philosophy of creating things you can hold, share in person, and remember not just with a screenshot, but with a feeling.
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1 month ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,This week’s is about inspiration: where I’ve been finding it, how I’ve come to realize it’s all connected, and what that’s starting to mean for my work. I finally saw the link between the three creative movements that have inspired me for years: hard-bop jazz, post-war abstract painting, and 90s New York hip hop. They might seem unrelated, but I’ve come to see them as different expressions of the same instinct, and that realization is shaping how I’m thinking about my work.
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1 month ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,What do our creative spaces say about us? How do they shape the work we make? I’ve spent years photographing creatives in their studios, workspaces, and homes, and I keep coming back to the same question: how much does space influence creativity? Today I will share some lessons from photographing 600+ creative spaces. This week’s Process is the first in a new quarterly series where I’ll dig into my archive using Excire’s AI-powered search to find photos around a specific theme.
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2 months ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve |Adam McDonald |Felix Troiszero
Dear friends,This week, I tested an 85mm lens that is 8x cheaper than my usual Canon setup—and it pleasantly surprised me. I brought it along for a few shoots, including two for Creatives In/AMS and a client portrait session, where a lighting mistake led to a lucky accident. Also, a quick but exciting update on Creatives In/AMS—our limited-edition preview zine just made its debut at SXSW! More on that inside.
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2 months ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,This week was all about testing. I took an MPB-loaned Leica M6 to London and Paris, and I tried out Harman’s brand-new redscale film—two very different approaches to street photography. Also in this issue: a BIG new Process x BuyMoreFilm CAMERA GIVEAWAY: The iconic Nikon FE +c Nikkor 50mm f/2—easily one of our coolest giveaways yet!When the good folks at MPB lent me a Leica M6 for a couple of weeks, I took it straight to Paris and London for last fall’s Process Photowalk Tour.
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2 months ago | 
wesley.substack.com | Wesley Verhoeve
Dear friends,I recently co-hosted a photography contest with the good folks at Lomography, inspired by one of the assignments from Process Workbook Volume Two, and the response was incredible—we received an impressive 2,930 entries. The assignment read as follows:“Challenge yourself to capture a portrait without showing the subject’s face directly.
