Theory & Reflections Archives

14 December, 2020

Stand development Follow Up – My First Steps into Analogue – Part 8 – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

I have been studying a bit since my last post on the subject of stand development and have put in place some comment I received. As such, here a follow-up on my experiences with...

10 December, 2020

Memories Lost, Memories Created, Memories Kept – By Jim Grey

By Jim Grey

Photographs restore lost memories and anchor tenuous ones. Through them I catalog my memories and arrange them into timelines. They help me create life narratives in retrospect....

6 December, 2020

Three Mistake I’ve Made That Involved Photography in Some Way

By Gerard Exupery

Miriam confused me. She wasn't slender, and she wasn't large… I would describe her as being voluptuous. Her clothes were always new. Her hair and makeup were always perfect. She...

2 December, 2020

My First Rolls of Ektachrome – A Tropical Thunderstorm – By Aukje

By Aukje

It has been a while since I have submitted a story for 35mmc, sometimes life gets in the way of photography. This time I broke my foot, and it kept me indoors most of spring and...

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. Part 4 is less a...

23 November, 2020

A Lifetime of Photography – An Interview with Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

Gerard Exupery has been writing articles for 35mmc for a little over 6 months now. They are some of the least conventional articles that I publish, but almost universally seem t...

13 November, 2020

Stand Development – My First Steps into Analogue – Part 7 – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

Recently I have been asked to develop some very old expired B&W films. After bit of research I decided to buy a bottle of HC-110 for the purpose. I was very tempted to try the s...

4 November, 2020

The Remains of the Abandoned Microscopy Lab – Shooting Expired Film – Pt 2 – by Ricardo Andrade

By Ricardo Andrade

In this chapter I am going to dig a little deeper into the results of my nonsense endeavour. I will show you some of the images I have obtained while searching for a photographi...

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