Music & Photography

Scott Stillman is a musician-photographer in Minneapolis, Minnesota that creates portraits, landscape, and abstract pinhole photographs. Many of his black and white prints are made in the traditional way using film and a wet darkroom. Photographs can be printed as silver gelatin (black and white fiber paper), Van Dyke Brown historic process, or archival inkjet (digital process). His passion is portrait photography, especially with large format film using vintage or antique cameras and lenses, some older than a century. Photographs made in this style possess qualities unmatched by modern digital equipment.

Stillman lives in the Twin Cities and makes images across Minnesota and the Midwest region. In addition to these pages, there is a blog that is maintained on a more regular basis.

Scott in the snow with an 8x10 large format film camera.

Portraits • Landscapes • Music

Large format film portrait of a woman

Portrait Photography

Unique portraiture that captures the essence of a person in a visually interesting and timeless style. Mostly from film captures but you never know.

photographs of landscapes, street scenes, and anything else.

Landscapes & Everything Else

Photographs of landscapes, mountain adventures and street scenes to colorful abstract ice scapes on the shores of Lake Superior.

Images and musings about musical instruments and the music industry.

Music & Instruments

Images and musings about music, drums and other instruments, upcoming gigs, other shows and the music industry.