Jiyoné (Guillaume Stutin) has taken over Ansel maintainance since october 2025. The current goal is to turn Ansel into a cooperative where users can become members and democratically control the project orientations and priorities, but also guarantee a fair retribution and safe working environment for those who commit their workforce to the project. I have layed out the description of the problem and the proposed solution on the democracy page.
Pending a real structure, Guillaume needs donations to pay his bills and you can support him on Liberapay .
Guillaume has been using Darktable since circa 2018 and moved to Ansel since the beginning. As a kitchen chef and culinary photographer, he has co-authored and photographed several cooking books whose pictures were edited with Darktable then with Ansel :
- À l’école de la fermentation , 2025, Éditions Alternatives.
- Le miel, guide d’usage , 2022, Éditions Alternatives.
- Légumes lacto-fermentés , 2021, Éditions Gallimard.
- Faire son pain et son levain , 2021, Éditions Larousse.
Guillaume also has an extensive experience with analog photography and film scanning, developping his negatives himself at home with C41 & E6 processes, or caffenol. He shoots stereophotography on diapositives. He has created some impressive Arduino-based devices to help with film chemical development and scanning, where he learned how to program in C.
On top of his real-world photography experience, both digital and analog, I trained him myself in software engineering. Needless to say, I have complete trust in him to carry on with my vision of what a good photo editing app should be.
So, please, go support him.
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