Wesley Verhoeve

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.