Constructed and photographed by me, Jesse Jacques , in July 2025 on Cinestill 800T and 400D medium format film. MONAD Field Instrument:...

Still from Tarkovsky’s   The Mirror (1975) , a meditation on memory, perception, and the illusions that shape us. Lately, much of my...

A glimpse into the materials, mood, and mess behind one of this summer’s photography builds. Hey everyone, It’s pretty much summertime...

Why AI Still Needs Your Signal to Reflect Truth Part 3 of the Simulation Series In Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris, an intelligent ocean...

AI and the Quiet Reprogramming of Human Behavior Part 2 in the ongoing series: “The Simulation Begins” Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait in...

The simulation doesn’t begin with the machine. It begins with our surrender to the mirror.   Duane Michals, “Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of...

1883 - The field leaves traces, even when you think nothing is happening. This is what frequency encodes. Frequencies, Signal Tuning,...

Some real questions. Some unexpected answers. Behind the scenes, in every sense. (Q&A live now) It’s been almost three years since my...

Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, May 2025 Photographed on Cinestill 800T film on medium format. One expression of a signal tuned...

An early Futurist poster (1924) reflecting the glorification of industrial creativity. It is an early glimpse of the hollowing that would...

Giorgio de Chirico, “L’arcobaleno” (1969) A rainbow divides a space of stillness and tension. In a world of artificial light and perfect...

David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Falling Buffalos), 1988–89 Echoes arrive in form before they arrive in understanding. ✦ Transmissions for...

Fritz Kahn’s “Man as Industrial Palace” (1926):  A visual metaphor for the human reduced to parts. Predictable, productive, and...

Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, April 2025. Shot on 8x10 film. Structured by necessity and charged with presence. What enters the...

Visual fragments from my latest photoshoot and the atmosphere around it, with materials, textures, and references that shaped the mindset...

Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, March 2025. Working at a high level means constantly refining execution, composition, and intent....

Some of the key elements from the photoshoot. 120 and large format film, Kodak Ektar and Portra 160, CineStill C-41 for development,...

Satiric Dancer (1926) Kertész - Stylized, playful, aware, but not empty. It flirts with the aesthetic yet holds something real. Can your...

A city stacked on itself. Layers of past and present side by side with no space to move. Like the generational gridlock shaping our world...

The future isn’t coming, it’s already here. AI is reshaping the world, exposing what humanity has always been. What happens when reality...