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24 January, 2022

Latent Postmodernism and The Act of Photography: Deconstructing the Yashica Y35 – By Michael Kaplan

By Michael Kaplan

I have been involved in some aspect of photography for forty-five years. I was 15 when I took my first precarious steps attempting to understand the complex simplicity of a pinh...

18 January, 2022

Photographic Nostalgia and the Myth of Soulfulness – By Ailbíona McLochlainn

By Ailbíona McLochlainn

My interest in tableaux photography now spans nearly two decades. And one type of scene I like to enact can perhaps be described as stills from a fictitious 1960s Soviet film se...

29 December, 2021

The Influence of Other Artists on my Work – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

We’re all subject to influences whether we know what they are and/or acknowledge them or not. As visual artists we’re influenced by our environment, other artists and photograph...

22 December, 2021

The Influence of Movies on my Work – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

I saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up the other day for the umpteenth time and while it is a film that when I first saw it I did get excited about being a photograp...

17 December, 2021

Rebecca – Women Hold Up Half The Sky – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

This is from my new book “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” to be published in January. The image is of Rebecca. Everyone called her Becks, and it would be hard to find someone who d...

16 December, 2021

The Joy of Photobooks – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

Back in the early 1980s, in my 20s and in my formative photographic years, I read a lot of books about the craft and practice of photography. This obviously contributed enormous...

14 December, 2021

Breaking Digital Habits and Relearning Film With a Leica IIIf – By Christopher DellaCorte

By Christopher DellaCorte

This story begins with an afternoon drive through the local countryside accompanied by my spouse. The air was lovely and warm. The skies were clear. The weather was what we expe...

9 December, 2021

A Year in Slide Film Part 1 – Shooting – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I was originally put off shooting slide film because I had heard that you needed to be incredibly precise with your exposure otherwise the whole shot would be ruined. Frankly, w...

Russ Rosener on Liege with a Leica iiig, Elmar 50mm f3.5, FP4, Fomapan 100 in PMK Pyro and an accident
Excellent article and photos. I am envious you made it up those steps! Not sure I would attempt it and…
Russ Rosener on The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer
Looks like you, the cameras and your subjects all had FUN! How it easy is when immersed in a blizzard…
RichardH on Liege with a Leica iiig, Elmar 50mm f3.5, FP4, Fomapan 100 in PMK Pyro and an accident
This is interesting, Geoff. Is the PMK Pyro development a factor in the low contrast? Or, was the low contrast…

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