2 August, 2025
Photographers in fiction
I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...
Graham Spinks's Posts
8 August, 2023
Dad’s Voigtlander Vitomatic II
It is the mid-1960s. Dad is coming through the door – home from work at last. Hanging from his neck he has two cameras – a Rolleiflex for people pictures and his trusty Voigtl...
2 January, 2022
5 frames with the original Olympus Pen – by Graham Spinks
The original Olympus Pen is a design icon. It is small, elegant, lovely to hold and shoot and has a fantastic 28mm lens. It is an early masterpiece from the designer Maitani Y...
I saw this Ross Ensign folding camera on eBay with a message from the seller saying that he was not a camera expert and had no idea whether or not it was in working condition. I...
For the last 25 years I have kept an office in St Ives – not the one by the sea where aggressive gulls rip ice creams indiscriminately from the hands of hyperactive children and...