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13 September, 2025
Master of Splatter
One midsummer’s night in San Benedetto del Tronto, a small town on the Adriatic coast, I attended a live concert by Claudio Simonetti, a living legend among Italian horror...
12 September, 2025
Lines in the Sky
For most of the past winter we lived under heavy cloud cover. At our northern latitude, clouds and winter make for dimly lit days. As a practitioner of the “sunny 16” system of ...
12 September, 2025
Mamiya Six IV – Exploring Square Format with a Vintage Camera from 1947
I’ve always been fascinated by the square format. As a longtime 35mm SLR shooter, I never really experienced different aspect ratios—except through cropping in post. My journey ...
11 September, 2025
5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C
Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...
11 September, 2025
The Influence of Film on Film part 2 – Bellows to the Wind
Back in 2020 I wrote about my first venture into DIY film making with my short film Preserve. I was asked to contribute to 35mmc and felt it right to talk about the film, and ho...
10 September, 2025
An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One (plus one) Shot Story
Ofena is a small town located within the Abruzzo National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, in Italy, Hit by the 2009 earthquake, Ofena is still struggling to recover. L...
10 September, 2025
Wider Than Wide-Angle – 15mm for Documentary Photography
I recently wrote about my use of 21mm, a lens I had used some years ago and returned to out of necessity when, while working a specific situation, my standard wide angle was not...
9 September, 2025
Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story
The goal of every travel photographer is to capture the essence of a place or a people in a single image. The challenge – beyond the obvious technical issues related to hauling ...
