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20 July, 2020

Death in the Camera Store / Learning to See On the Other Side of Fear – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

I am standing with my fingers knitted together, resting on the top of my head. A few feet away, there is a gun pointed at my face, and I'm trying like I've never tried anything ...

18 July, 2020

The Yashica 124G and How it Helped Me Get Married – by Sacha Cloutier

By Sacha Cloutier

Like many people, my experience with photography started before a digital alternative existed. We remember that time, when most people didn’t have a cell phone and most pictures...

18 June, 2020

Film Photography – Enriching my Journey like a Topolino – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

This morning, on my routine ride with my pushbike, I was thinking over about what is photography for me, and I came out with quite clear picture in my mind. To me is "just" a c...

9 June, 2020

Architectural photography with a 50mm lens (and some thoughts on minimalism) – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

I love modern design, and in particular also interior and exterior architectural design. Most recently, I have been focusing on architectural subjects in my photography. It turn...

3 June, 2020

The Waitress, the Tarantula, the Body in the Bathtub and Why I Had To Buy My Girlfriend a New Pentax

By Gerard Exupery

The amount of damage was difficult for me to comprehend. The first time, trying to put the debacle into perspective, I thought this must be what it is like to fall out of an air...

27 May, 2020

Everything Goes Back to the Beginning – By Marcel Zyskind

By Marcel Zyskind

It’s April 9th 2020; 03.08am. I’m sitting in a small hallway under the stairs leading down to our basement. Here I have a computer set up with my old Nikon 400...

19 May, 2020

Revisiting and Reflecting on my Photographs from 2012 – by Samuel Hardwick

By Sam Hardwick

Back in 2012, during my time studying Art and Design techniques in College, I had become quite fond of the idea of using cameras for a project I was working on, and had decided ...

10 May, 2020

35mm in the Time of Coronavirus – By Steph Powell

By Stephanie Powell

Our family camera was kept in a sock drawer. It was brought out of the Queen Anne cupboard for family occasions during the 90s. Dad would load the film into the chamber. It woul...

Zheng Li on 5 Frames with a camera from Before He Was Famous – The Triumph of Dr. Nagel.
Dr. Nagel is a design genius, and thanks for paying tribute to him. I have a few of his early…
Dave Powell on 5 Frames with a camera from Before He Was Famous – The Triumph of Dr. Nagel.
Lovely and surprising images, Richard! I cherish my Retina IIa... a beautiful machine.
Hannah Gimblett on An Exhibition With A Film Photography Collective
Thank you for the comment, Geoff! There truly is such a wonderful array of work within this collective. It provided…

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