Photography Archives

12 October, 2025

Portrait Photography – How I Approached Strangers at a Wedding

By Alexandre Kreisman

Last year, I was invited to a wedding, where I knew about 10 people out of the 130 plus guests. Unfortunately, they were working, so I was alone amongst a lot of people who were...

12 October, 2025

Florence on film

By David Smith

When I was nineteen, I dreamed of becoming a professional cyclist. Although, I was living in Northern Ontario, where the winters are long, I spent the short summers riding for h...

11 October, 2025

5 Frames with the Contax TVS, Kono! Art 100 and a Baltic Marina

By Jens

Some trips are like good coffee: strong, slightly bitter, and they wake you up to reality – or at least to the view. My August 2023 jaunt to the Baltic coast – Travemünde, Laboe...

10 October, 2025

One By Four – A One Shot Story told by four photographers – Part 1

By Scott Ferguson

First, I’d like to thank my fellow 35mmc contributors David Pauley, David Hume and Dean Lawrence for having the temerity to quadruple down on the idea of a dialogue-driven post ...

9 October, 2025

The Littlest Act – Epicureanism, Philosophy, and Shopping Trolleys

By Derek Hope

Often, I find it is easy to simply breeze past the day-to-day sights and sounds of life. We walk into a coffee shop and forget how much we love the smell of espresso. We pass by...

9 October, 2025

A Short Stay Under Hong Kong Skyline

By Eagle Omomuro

Travel photography has never been easy. Nineteen years ago, when I began working as a journalist, my editor told me that a journalist must have a perspective. Simply recording s...

8 October, 2025

5 Frames from a mental health day

By Christopher Welch

I love teaching. Working with teenagers is rewarding work… and exhausting. I see around 160-180 students per semester. It is challenging work, but I get to share the thing I lov...

7 October, 2025

5 frames in France with a Contax RX

By Alastair Bell

I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of year...

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