The knack for photography never really left me since childhood. I've tried a few ways to share my pictures with others along the road. Regardless of the platform I used, I ended up feeling boxed in and suffocated, as it felt the platform had codes of its own one had to use in order to be seen. Having oscillated between sharing nothing, publishing pictures for two weeks then deleting it all, I realized one of the main issues was the pressure to publish continuously... in order not to get buried and slowly forgotten under a neverending pile of content. I ended up trying to tackle the problem and build a platform of my own at the beginning of 2025. Very soon, however, it turned into a super-app, a feature factory like countless others. It felt like a Tantalean punishment. Each step I was attempting to make to 'solve' the problem resulted in having ten more to make. This was unsustainable and we stopped working on the project with the team I had gathered. Looking back, the issue was the problem I wanted to solve had felt clear, but really wasn't. No surprise I was running in circles. I hadn't even solved the problem for myself ! Some 18 months later, having enough of seeking unexisting important solutions to an important problem, I resolved to do the simplest thing available instead. I published [my online portfolio](https://studio.theolouvel.com/), which displays one picture at a time, doesn't require industrial content-shoving, and has exactly two links: One to the home page of the portfolio, and one to [my website](https://www.theolouvel.com/fieldnotes/README). I didn't create a platform, and probably never will. I did however, solved the most important problem in the most simple way. My work is out there.