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24 November, 2025

The Case of Slowing Down in Photography

By Kyler Payne

24 November, 2025

/ Photography Philosophy, /

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Motorway bridge over the River Exe and Exeter Ship Canal

4 November, 2025

The Motorway Bridge – A One Shot Story

By Ed

This photograph shows the underside of the motorway bridge that crosses the head of the Exe Estuary. I regularly cycle or walk under this bridge. It’s an impressive struct...

4 November, 2025

Samsung Digimax L85 (and How It Replaced a Sigma DP2s)

By Ed

During the summer I bought a Foveon-based camera, the Sigma DP2s. The DP2s was released in 2010, a minor update to the DP2. I’d always wanted to try a Foveon camera and I ...

3 November, 2025

5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too

By Chris Giles

A while back I picked up a job lot of three cameras for not much money. The one I was after was a Konica C35 EF – which did prove to be exactly what I wanted, but that is ...

3 November, 2025

Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone

By Bob Janes

Miniature cameras have long been a ‘thing’ in photography. The original Leica was designed as a miniature camera, using a comparatively small cinema stock. Subminature formats w...

2 November, 2025

My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer

By Jeremy Rata

I have always been a documentary photographer, just not a paid one. That all changed in 2010, I was commissioned by a man called John Casson whom I had met at a dinner party I w...

2 November, 2025

Planar. Ektar. Fotograflar. Istanbul… In 5 Frames

By Omar Tibi

Cue the Sertab Erener song. How do you tell a story about a city bigger than many countries, in just 5 images? This was the question I was grappling with when trying to write th...

1 November, 2025

Mount Cook and the Glaciers, 1893

By Logan Mortimer

In February 1893 George Moodie set off from Dunedin, a city on the south east coast of New Zealand, to Mount Cook. He was on a photographic trip on behalf of the Burton Brothers...

1 November, 2025

5 Frames with a Leica 1c

By Phil Harrison

I’ve been a fan of Viewfinder cameras for many years, having owned M’s and Leica III’s in the past, with a IIIa my current camera. I never thought about a Leic...

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