For my approach to photography I find that 50mm makes sense for a lens with the greatest capacity for intimacy in an image. 90mm is my go-to for street composition involving lar...
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One of my first rangefinder lenses was the 50mm f0.95 Noctilux, which offers one of the most extreme light gathering apertures available to commercial photographers. I used this...
I've shared quite a bit of my work on here before, so I thought I'd offer something a little different with this article. Unlike my pervious "5 Frames With" contributions this o...
The 24 Hour Project is a humanitarian initiative which connects photographers in cities all around the world, inviting them to join together for 24 hours straight to photograph ...
2 April, 2018
Photographing Punks on Polaroid – by Simon King
I've always thought of myself as an outsider - I think a lot of photographers do. It makes it easier for us to introspect; to look at the world from a perspective a little more ...
Shooting film for commissioned work is unfortunately becoming much rarer, despite the efforts of communities like this blog to keep the medium alive. For hobbyists and fine arti...
12 March, 2018
A Few Frames More, with the Hasselblad XPan – by Simon King
The XPan is everything I have ever needed from a film camera. It serves the purpose to me of being fundamentally different from the regular frame shape which most film, dig...
The Leica M240 is the camera I have used most (so far) for serious and professional photography in my life, but somehow is the camera I've written about the least. I'm not much ...