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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...

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...

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...

2 November, 2020

Katie Melua on Shooting the “Album No.8” Cover with Film – Interview by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

Katie Melua's latest album, Album No.8, came out on October 16th. It’s the Georgian-British singer-songwriter’s eighth studio album (hence the name), and also her eighth consec...

30 October, 2020

The Remains of the Abandoned Microscopy Lab – Shooting Expired Film – Pt 1 – by Ricardo Andrade

By Ricardo Andrade

I work as a microscopist in life sciences at the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Northern Spain. I started using microscopes in 1993, while doing my PhD in the fiel...

6 October, 2020

When You Pray, Be Specific – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

It’s another beautiful day in paradise. Dark, and rainy. It’s one of those days that suggest the beauty of film. F-stop wide open, the darkness and grain, the feeling of an impr...

1 October, 2020

Overcoming Creative Block – A Few Tips – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Creative block has been defined as the mind's inability to access its own creativity. So while creative block is a phenomenon of the mind, it is nevertheless real and plagues ma...

Gary Smith on Reedy Island Range Rear Lighthouse – One Shot Story
Nice image and congrats on your use of cafenol. I haven't used any of that, all of my b&w in…
Gary Smith on A Zeiss Ikon’s Demise and Harman Phoenix 200 – First Experiences
I'm curious about your processing: did you do it yourself or was it sent out to a lab? Did you…
Russ Rosener on A Zeiss Ikon’s Demise and Harman Phoenix 200 – First Experiences
I much enjoyed this adventure story with two dogs-one a fine canine specimen and the other a dog of a…

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