Since switching from Windows to Linux and from Lightroom to darktable, my setup is no longer properly color-managed. It used to be - back on Windows everything was reasonably calibrated. But in the end, maybe it doesn’t really matter. Or more precisely: maybe it never did. Or rather: it’s hopeless.

Lighting conditions vary. Most of your screens likely aren’t color-managed or adapted to your current environment. And then there’s everything else - biology, psychology, mood. Truth is, we’ll never all see exactly the same image.

But perhaps that’s not a flaw - it’s the point. A space for different ways of seeing. Just as a sculptor starts with raw stone, I start with a RAW file: a block of digital potential. The image I shape from it isn’t the final word - just the beginning of someone else’s interpretation.

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