"At the center are two men: Eric Weiss, the photographer who captured the pulse of New York's cultural heyday, and Tomek Maćkowiak, a Bay Area craftsman dedicated to reviving the tools of film photography. Their collaboration is not just about nostalgia. It is a meditation on memory, patience and the tactile joy of film in a digital world, reminding us that slowing down can be the boldest act of all."
"Eric Weiss's journey into photography began suspended between boyish play and artistic awakening. Babysitting younger cousins as a 12-year-old, he detected a glow of alchemy in his cousin's makeshift darkroom, a moment he describes as luminous and irrevocable. Books his mother kept at home, with anthropological photographs, further fueled his desire to see how others lived and to traverse worlds via images. A security gig at the Brooklyn Museum brought him face-to-face with a Life photographer's exhibition—Eliot Elisofon's African reportage—and crystallized his path."
An exhibition at Black & Brown in San Jose will pair Eric Weiss's vintage portraits of 1980s and ’90s icons with rows of restored cameras, including Leicas, Nikon rangefinders and large-format machines. The collaboration centers on Weiss, who built a career capturing New York's cultural pulse, and Tomek Maćkowiak, a Bay Area craftsman who revives film photography tools. The project frames analog practice as a meditation on memory, patience and tactile pleasure, asserting that slowing the photographic process reconnects makers and viewers to deeper temporal and sensory experiences. Weiss's path began in a cousin's makeshift darkroom and was sharpened by museum encounters and early event work.
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