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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...

Ian Gamester on Calm Down – How Slow Photography Eased My Pre-Match Anfield Anxiety
Thanks. I was transported back to childhood as soon as I started constructing the Lego. It was quite amazing how…
Ian Gamester on Calm Down – How Slow Photography Eased My Pre-Match Anfield Anxiety
Good luck to Arsenal, it could be your year.
Russ Rosener on Calm Down – How Slow Photography Eased My Pre-Match Anfield Anxiety
Truly this is one of the best posts about photography, and WHY we do photography that I have seen in…

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