The Architect &
The Archive.
I'm Nick — a photographer based in Oakland, CA, documenting life on Bay Area streets.
I shoot on a Lumix G85 with a 25mm prime and a 45-150mm telephoto. No elaborate setups. Just the grain, the light, and the people exactly as they are.
But here's the thing about street photography: you come home with hundreds of frames. The shooting is the easy part. The archive is the work.
FIXXER is my answer to the chaos — a terminal-based workflow that uses local AI to name, cull, and organize photos without touching the cloud. No uploads, no subscriptions, no algorithms deciding what's worth keeping.
It's the same philosophy behind this site: a sovereign space on the web. No logins, no feeds, just the work itself.
Full Disclosure:
My camera is a physical tool, used in physical spaces, to capture real moments I see with my own eyes. That's non-negotiable. But the work that happens after the shutter closes — the naming, sorting, archiving — that's where modern tooling earns its place. I use frontier models like Claude and Gemini to architect and write code. The image stays human; the workflow stays modern.
This is my archive. Welcome to it.