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3 November, 2025
5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
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
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
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
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
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
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...
31 October, 2025
5 Frames on Haida Gwaii
You really have to want to get to Haida Gwaii from, well, anywhere. In theory it’s quite simple to get to Haida Gwaii from Vancouver. Simply head east on Highway 1, or the Sea t...
31 October, 2025
The Glamorous Side to Motor Racing – A One Shot Story
There aren’t many sports more glamorous than motor racing, and whilst Formula 1 might grab all the headlines, it’s not as exciting as it’s made out to be, and not very inc...
