Theory & Reflections Archives

24 November, 2021

The Film Community has a Math Problem. Not a Film Price or Kodak Problem – By Matt Wright

By Matthew Wright

On November 3, 2021, Kodak announced a film price increase of 9-15% and the film community let out a collective sigh of exhaustion citing a lack of support and commitment to the...

23 November, 2021

Ten Years Gone: The Ricoh GXR

By Anonymised

I have always been a film photographer: I grew up when there was only film and realised, pretty early in the digital age, that the tens of thousands of hours I had already spent...

7 November, 2021

Searching for 1950s Motion Picture Aesthetics in my Own Photos – By Ian Do Carmo

By Ian Do Carmo

I often get my inspiration from motion pictures, and as a collector of film stocks I look for mundane things to shoot while experimenting with various films that I can get a hol...

5 November, 2021

Photographer or Photographic Artist? – by Billy Sanford

By Billy Sanford

This article began as a post in the Photography Books and Theory group on Facebook. It is a friendly and informative group and as the name implies, it is a place to discuss book...

3 November, 2021

What do you do with all the photographs you take? Who actually sees them? – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

In the olden days, before domestic computers, sharing images shot on neg film was all about physical artefacts. In order to share your work you had to produce something tangible...

29 October, 2021

“Blur is a Part of Life” – A Collaborative Project

By Sroyon

When asked if blur in photographs is undesirable because it obscures what is there, William Klein disagreed: "If you look carefully at life, you see blur. Shake your hand. Blur ...

17 October, 2021

A Cinematic Photographer Discovering New Horizons by – Nicola Armento

By Nicola Armento

I can’t remember how it all started, I never even thought about taking pictures, but then one day, on that plane to New York in 2017, something changed. I was going on a trip w...

13 October, 2021

How Minimal Can You Go? How Minimal Is Too Far? – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

How minimalist can you go and still represent a subject when the photograph appears to be almost abstract and of nothing at all? I’ve been photographing the ground beneath our ...

Bob Janes on An Inexpensive Adapter on a Sony Mirrorless and Auto ISO.
The wonderful world of dumb adapters! I have a fair few to use my Hexanon, Zuiko and Rokkor lenses on…
Graham Orbell on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
Bob Janes I bought an Agfa Daylight loading tank in 1970. Vastly more simple than the one you reviewed. I…
Ľubomír Brindza on Sony Alpha 850 – My Unexpected Journey Rediscovering the Joy of DSLRs
"Roughly a decade ago, this fascination led me to abandon my DSLR setup in favor of mirrorless cameras." This was…

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