Philosophy & Reflections Archives

19 July, 2025

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

By Scott Ferguson

Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere. Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot...

19 July, 2025

On Film Simulation or ‘is fiction more real than reality, and why should we care?’

By Andrea Monti

Simulations have turned an inevitable fact —using the chosen brand and type of film for an entire roll— into an aesthetic tool allowing the selection of the most appropriate ima...

Canon A1 | Black & White Negative film | Agfapan 400

18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

With the growing interest in analogue photography, as Bastian so inspiringly explores in his Analogue Adventures, I too have decided to create a series of film-related articles....

14 July, 2025

Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax

By Ibraar Hussain

(Title Photo – only one of two photos of the G2 unfortunately with me in it! Yuk! 2009) This will be my last post on a Contax G2 I used to have (last but one), and which I...

13 July, 2025

Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

By Andrea Monti

I was curious to see how an AI would handle a bad photo, so I uploaded this black-and-white shot taken in the area around Kyoto Station with my Nikon 35TI. The photo itself —the...

6 July, 2025

Why its important wander aimlessly with your film camera

By Vincent Botton

To begin with what may seem like a cliché: in today’s world, avoiding screens has become nearly impossible. Sitting in front of a laptop monitor, sketching on a tablet, with a p...

9 June, 2025

A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months

By Scott Ferguson

It’s been one year since I unexpectedly came into custody of a Hasselblad 500CM and a Leica M2. This opened up a whole new creative outlet for me and has become a very ab...

5 June, 2025

On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

By Andrea Monti

A number of philosophies and religions preach the virtue of detachment from things as a path to enlightenment. When applied to gear, this advice won’t only save your soul ...

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