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30 December, 2020

‘Arctic Norway’ – A Photozine – By Alex Relton Brown

By Alex Relton Brown

This year I made a trip to visit a friend for the first time since he'd moved from the UK to Norway. I took my Hasselblad 501CM, Canon Sureshot A1 and a sack of Kodak colour neg...

9 December, 2020

Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams – Book Review – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

As someone who is an avid reader and collector of books, I am pretty time-poor. I have a job, two young children and a multitude of hobbies which I try to fit in too. Because of...

30 November, 2020

“Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus” and “Out of Focus”: Pinhole Adventures Part 4 – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Another Monday, another episode of my Pinhole Adventures series… but this one is a bit different. So far, I’ve mainly focused on designing and building cameras. Pa...

26 November, 2020

5 Frames Cut from The Summer of ’20 – by Simon King / New Exit Group

By Simon King

In 2019 I co-founded a documentary photography movement with fellow photographers David Babaian, Andrew Blowers and Sagar Kharecha, with the intention of representing local stor...

25 November, 2020

‘Redlands’ by Philip Brookman – A Book Review – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

“Our family album is full of beautiful pictures from the beach, but none of them tells the real story.” (Brookman, 2015: p127) I came across this book by chance. I was looking ...

22 September, 2020

Through the (Looking) Glass – Photographing Portraits in the time of COVID-19 – By Carole Evans

By Carole Evans

Through the (Looking) Glass is a series of portraits of my neighbours, taken through their windows during Lockdown 2020. It is shot using slide film, on a Hasselblad camera, and...

4 August, 2020

The Colours of Shanghai / How I came to Publish a Photozine of XPAN shots – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

I am in the process of publishing (and pre-selling) a zine called The Colours of Shanghai. It collects panoramic XPAN photos taken in Shanghai between 2014 and 2016. In August ...

31 December, 2018

The Lesser Photographer by CJ Chilvers – a particularly sage photography book

By Hamish Gill

The lesser photographer, a book by CJ Chilvers, is a reorganised and edited compendium of thoughts about photography taken from his blog. I suppose you could call it tips, or ma...

Stephen Barnett on Olympus XA-2 – An old friend
I still have my XA-2 from buying it in the early 1980's and it still works perfectly although almost all…
Wim HH van Heugten on Olympus XA-2 – An old friend
Nice reading! One correction: The XA-2 has a 4-elements (4-groups) lens. Only the original XA has a 6-elements (5 groups)…
Andrew L on Petri Color 35 – A Love Letter to a favourite camera
A fitting write-up on the excellent Petri Color 35. I really enjoyed mine, which I dug out of a pile…

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