Stacy J. Platt - the space in between

09 Jun 2026 12 min read

The Art of the Loss of Love pt. 3: Nobuyoshi Araki and Losing the Self

The most honest and intriguing images are the ones that he is making now, at the end of his life. If Nobuyoshi Araki has lived for 86 years as someone with a rapacious appetite for…well, everything, he is now at the moment of having his after dinner drink and waiting for the final check to arrive.

25 Jan 2026 3 min read

The Consequences of Giving Yourself What You Need, Or: On the Occasion of My 51st Year

The life you imagined having for the rest of your life begins to flicker like static at the edge of your knowing, and now what you hadn’t imagined for yourself becomes more than possibility...You are spilling out at the edges and making a mess. A glorious, smiling, unapologetic and uncontained mess.

31 Dec 2025 6 min read

The Year of Not Flinching

The ability to stand still, avoid the blows, anticipate the other's distraction, and not flinch have all been qualities of my life in 2025 that I am reflecting upon on the last day of the year.

08 Nov 2025 8 min read

How to Keep Enough of Yourself Together When the Rest of You is Breaking Apart at the Seams

I do remember trying to describe to friends at the time what it felt like: it felt like I was a raw, exposed, bloody and pulsing nerve ending. One that everyone could see. And when beheld, my psyche felt the whole of the world backing away...

14 Oct 2025 8 min read

The Best Photobook That I Got at the NYABF

The book I am speaking of...neatly fit my favorite kind of esoteric niche paradigm: it's a photobook in the truest sense of the word, while also not being recognizably a photobook except to people with a deep and historical love of photographic process (delight the third).