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27 June, 2026

Flags in Two Places

By Danilo Leonardi

27 June, 2026

/ Documentary Photography, Photography Philosophy, /

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© Phil Maxwell, The Kiss, Brick Lane Laundrette, early 1980s. Shot on an Olympus XA2.

26 June, 2026

Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre

By Shafiur Rahman

I have known Phil Maxwell for about sixteen years. For a period, we both had studios in Spitalfields, in that strange zone where the East End was still recognisably itself but w...

25 June, 2026

If You Walk, the Photo Will Come – One Shot Story

By Scott Peterson

I recently picked up an SMC Asahi-Pentax 100mm f/4 Macro lens to use on my Nikon Zf and headed downtown to try it out. The walk wasn’t especially inspiring. Much of downto...

25 June, 2026

5 frames with a Leica M4-P

By Simon Platt

My first Leica was an M4-2, I used it extensively but sold it to help pay for my first digital Leica, an M9 in black. After a while, I missed the relatively quiet “Click&#...

24 June, 2026

In the nature reserve in the Netherlands / Germany – A One Shot Story

By Walter Reumkens

A discussion with a community member here on 35mmc led us to cameras “Made in Germany”, and we soon found ourselves talking about Carl Zeiss Jena and the “Contax D” with the Bio...

24 June, 2026

Exploring horizontal camera scanning solutions

By verybigobo

I admit I am lazy, and that is precisely why I have been looking for a simple horizontal camera scanning setup. For vertical scanning I would need to assemble a copy stand, conn...

23 June, 2026

Boat trip – A One Shot Story

By Walter Reumkens

I took this photo around Easter 1999 during a 12-day boat trip from Narbonne to Beaucaire via the Canal de la Robine, the Canal de Jonction (Aude), the Canal du Midi and the Can...

Painted houses of Little Venice in Mykonos seen from the water, late afternoon light

23 June, 2026

5 Frames With a 1935 Leica II and Candido 400 in Mykonos

By Francesco Mocellin

I live in northern Italy. Only recently, after many years away, have I gone back to shooting film – mostly black and white – and developing and printing at home when...

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Shafiur Rahman on Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
Thank you. Yep, that is exactly what I admire in Phil’s work too. The vitality is not just in the…
Shafiur Rahman on Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
Thanks. I felt the same when Phil told me that story. It says so much about what photographs can become…
Andrew L on Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
Thank you for clueing me in on a great photographer! There's a vitality to Maxwell's photographs that I find very…

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