As part of a Focus on Photography, we asked some talented photographers for a quick snapshot with some hot takes.
Meet fourteen photographers who create with their camera.
Sherie
What is photography to you?
Creating art
Why photography?
I love people, and I love imagining creative ways to capture their stories
Why photography on BTC?
For permanence
Costo Bravo
What is photography to you?
A way to build alternate worlds. By looking for beauty in the everyday life and freezing it in time, by digitally altering what I shoot and improvising new imagined worlds built on top of the existing one.
Why photography?
Photography is a humble medium. It allows artists to observe, contemplate, daydream.
Why photography on BTC?
It makes sense to search for the most robust ways of preserving one's work, photographic or not, and Bitcoin offers just that. Bitcoin is a playground photographers can make theirs in innovative ways.
Violet Bond
What is photography to you?
Life, death and the capture of a moment.
Why photography?
It's a medium that allows us to capture (rather than create) a moment and no longer exists
Why photography on BTC?
My current photography/scanography series is a comment on the ephemeral nature of life AND technology, the contrasting comment of bringing something ephemeral to btc felt very linked.
Timmboslice
What is photography to you?
A means of connection, story telling and preservation.
Why photography?
50 years from now, wouldn’t you love to look back on moments in your life? Photography is such a powerful tool, storing memories and moments in time that we simply can’t physically replicate in the mind. To me that makes photography such a powerful tool.
Why photography on BTC?
Capturing moments in time, and preserving them on the blockchain forever is something so special. Photography on Bitcoin just makes sense for that reason. A snapshot in time never to be replicated, on the blockchain never to be forgotten.
Mag
What is photography to you?
Photography reminds us of our curiosity to find the beauty hidden in everyday life that we tend to miss. It also inspires our own imagination.
Why photography?
I improvise and photograph the coincidences of the street, and use them as the basis for my work. Photography allows me to snapshot these coincidental moments instantly, and it is the best means of the approach I want to express.
Why photography on BTC?
I am fascinated by the decentralization and perpetuation of data that records a moment in time on the blockchain. I also find it interesting to create new expressions based on photographs using technologies such as recursion.
Giulio Aprin
What is photography to you?
Photography is a journey in which you get to live and experience so many different things. It is a personal journey and a way to capture instants of it.
Why photography?
Because it was the first tool at the age of 5 I got to experiment with and ever since fell in love with it.
Why photography on BTC?
Inscribing on BTC give you the full reassurance that the work is permanently on the blockchain without any risk.
Nate Hill
What is photography to you?
Many things… Capturing light, capturing a moment in time, a starting point for exploration and creativity…
Why photography?
It can be immediate and impactful, but also can be manipulated and enhanced.
Why photography on BTC?
It’s like any other art form or medium. It deserves to be preserved.
publicdmnvenus - Gabriela
What is photography to you?
A tool to record reality, but always can be altered or molded to what I really want to see or transmit.
Why photography?
Photography is how I started, since I really wanted to also go into filmmaking, I realized photography should be my first step, to understand frames and the art of storytelling.
Why photography on BTC?
Having my art live on BTC is a way to preserve it forever, it gives me a sense of peace to know I can always go back to them, either on Blockchain, or physically (I do love to print my work as well).
James Andrew
What is photography to you?
It is a way of translating emotion into imagery. It’s how I slow down time, capture fleeting beauty, and share the awe I feel when standing alone in the wilderness.
Why photography?
Photography gave me a way to reconnect and fall back in love with nature after years of feeling stuck in the routine of everyday life.
Why photography on BTC?
I haven't jumped on BTC yet, but I want to so I can immortalize a piece of myself on BTC.
Rachel Suzanne Tien Wood
What is photography to you?
According to a DNA test, I’m going to lose my mind early. So I take pictures to remember. My photographs aren’t just images—they’re how I felt in those places.
Why photography?
Because words aren’t always enough. Because my memory is unreliable—but photos on Bitcoin are forever. Because a camera freezes time just enough for me to relieve these moments again and again.
Why photography on BTC?
I have been inscribing photos fully on-chain, because I know that these images will not fade over time. It’s the best way I can preserve this places for future generations to see what the world once looked like.
Intrepid
What is photography to you?
A way to express how I see the world.
Why photography?
Because light moves, clouds shift, people vanish, and the frame is the only way to hold still what’s already leaving.
Why photography on BTC?
Inscriptions on Bitcoin are like graffiti on the Colosseum. When this epoch is gone, people will study them - searching for clues about how we lived, what we valued, what this world was like. Photography inscribed on BTC offers that same level of permanence.
New Light Visuals
What is photography to you?
Many things. Meditation, discovery, healing, art, escapism, a glimpse into the tiny universe we cannot see with our eyes alone.
Why photography?
It saved my life. Because these moments right now matter, there is meaning in documenting as many angles of this life as humanly possible.
Why photography on BTC?
When I watched the early documentaries on Bitcoin and finally read the white paper, I knew it was not going anywhere anytime soon. This was the answer to so many things we needed solved. If I can attach my art to something that powerful? Sign me the F up.
Rich Caldwell
What is photography to you?
An opportunity to document unique views to share with the world
Why photography?
A fascination with how earth looked when viewed from above. Spawned from sitting in the window seat of a plane as a kid.
Why photography on BTC?
Want to preserve my work - more about building a legacy of work on chain.
Andrew Hooker
What is photography to you?
A chance to explore, escape and create through a visual, emotional experience with light and vision.
Why photography?
Because I can't draw, paint, sing or dance.
Why photography on BTC?
Why not? But, mainly because my work is not just at the end of a link and will be around as long as Bitcoin is.
