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26 December, 2025

Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025

By Simon King

26 December, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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There’s starting the year strong, and there’s whatever I managed to do this year, in making a photograph I was incredibly pleased with, while also incurring a consequence I can’t seem to escape from in some of my projects. Januar...

Naxos Island Kastraki Beach

26 December, 2025

5 Frames from Naxos Island

By Andrea Darra

26 December, 2025

/ Rolleiflex 3.5, travel photography, /

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I haven’t been back to Greece for a long time. I don’t know why I love the islands of the Cyclades archipelago so much, but every time I visit, my days are certainly dedicated to photography. I even believe my first photos – diff...

26 December, 2025

Abstract Graffiti – My Photograph of the Year 2025

By Ed

26 December, 2025

/ Pentax Auto 110, photo of the year 2025, /

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This photo was taken as part of a Sunday afternoon walk to town. I was testing a newly acquired Pentax Auto 110 and the image was taken with the tiny 18mm wide angle lens. This is a photo of nothing in particular but each time I look at it I am dr...

26 December, 2025

5 Frames featuring L.A.’s Skateboard Culture

By Gordon Ownby

26 December, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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In more than 20 years photographing on the streets of Los Angeles, I’ve never once set out to take photos of skateboarders. And yet, I have more photographs of skateboarders in my street portfolio than of any other single subject. Now both a modes...

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28 August, 2024

The Stupidity of Being Stubborn

By Andrea Monti

I knew exactly that I was going to fail, but I did it anyway, irrationally thinking that for some not well clear reason the law of physics and optics could be defied by the sacr...

28 August, 2024

Burning the midnight oil with Ilford HP5 at 1600 ASA

By Julian Tanase

Last time I have attended a night concert was back in August 2000, Bon Jovi playing at the old Wembley Arena. Great times, really great; but as with all good times, that concert...

An old hand painted Volvo

27 August, 2024

Folk Art on Wheels — One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Anyone fond of later-20th- and early-21st-century automobiles will enjoy Jim Grey’s “Old Cars Parked” columns and his posts on the “Curbside Classic” site. In them he shoots and...

David with his microscopes

27 August, 2024

A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras

By David Smith

My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinated with...

Light Lens Lab Eight Element

26 August, 2024

Light Lens Lab Eight Element 35mm f/2 review

By vincentbihler

Light Lens Lab is one of the newest Chinese lens manufacturers that started making replicas of legendary lenses in 2019. Their first lens, and best selling so far, is the Light ...

25 August, 2024

The Whole Test Roll – Hasselblad 503CX and Ilford XP2 Super

By John Greene

Well spotted if you noticed that the header picture is not a 503CX, why will become clear shortly. For almost 50 years I yearned for a V series Hasselblad but they were always w...

24 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Leica M6 and Slide Film

By Lasse Andersen

To be frank, E6 isn’t EZ. If you’ve read anything about slide film (E6 or reversal film) online it is that to unleash the real potential of it’s magnificent deep colour palette,...

23 August, 2024

The Accidental Double Exposure: A Virtual Architectural Vision – a One Shot Story

By Jens

As an avid hobbyist photographer, my journey through the world of analog photography has been marked by moments of surprise and serendipity. One such moment occurred recently wh...

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