deep and outrageous

— Adam Niklewicz, Sculptor

visually seductive and psychologically complex

— Matthew Baum, Founder of PhotoPhlo

not only unique, but a wonderfully creative and artistic use of the nature of film photography

— Charys Schuler, Developmental Editor, SilvergrainClassics

Michael Stenta treats film like geological strata - something to be quarried, fractured, and refused. He trims strips of 35mm, 120, and 4x5 into slivers, arranging them on a light table until “pleasant surprises and aesthetic dissonance” find equilibrium. Mosaics no larger than a postcard are then scanned and inverted, preserving scratches, sprocket holes, and development quirks as proof of lived light. Stenta’s loyalty isn’t to analog purity or digital ease but to the sanctity of material: photons that “traveled a great distance,” now held in silver salts forever. His mosaics flicker between abstraction and recognition, turning the act of looking into an exercise in reconstruction—proof that light, once captured, can still be renegotiated.

— Michael Behlen, Founder of Analog Forever Magazine