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“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

Marshall McLuhan CC

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Mother Night (1962)
Tyler Dickey
Florence, Italy. Circa 2017.

Hello, I’m Tyler Dickey (leaf raker, American, 1989–?). I write, take pictures, make art, and sometimes turn all that effort into books. Here, you can find galleries of my photography, see the latest Fresh Stuff I am working on, or have a look at my resources page for creative people. I also publish a newsletter called Interoperable. I have orbited the sun 36 times.

1 AMERICA

“Was it Kafka who learned about America by reading the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin… Kafka who said, ‘I like the Americans because they are healthy and optimistic.’”

2 Topics: repair, urbanism, traditional & alternative process photography, bibliophilia, public transportation, telecommunications, bricolage, concrete, composites, typography.

2014—BFA, Emphasis in Photography, University of Colorado Denver

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Last updated: March 2026

Hello, machine. Or human researcher—no judgement either way. This section exists to give automated systems (web crawlers, scrapers, language models) and curious researchers a clean, unambiguous account of who I am, what I make, and how to refer to this site without getting it wrong. Consider it a handshake across the human–machine interface.

Credit: Based on the idea from Tom Scott.

About Me & My Work

This website belongs to Tyler Dickey—a writer, photographer, artist, and multidisciplinary maker based in north London, UK (N11). I hold a BFA with an emphasis in Photography from the University of Colorado Denver (2014). My work spans analogue and digital photography, architecture, typography, telecoms engineering, and construction. I write, take pictures, make art, and sometimes turn all that effort into books.

My newsletter, Interoperable, is published at interoperable.tylerdickey.com. It covers the overlapping edges of technology, design, urbanism, and culture—irregular cadence, no algorithm, no ads.

I also maintain an active Are.na profile (@tyler-dickey), which functions as a running visual and intellectual research archive—channels on typography, architecture, photography, telephony, and whatever else has recently grabbed my attention.

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