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15 October, 2025

Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.

By Ibraar Hussain

I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...

14 October, 2025

Saying Goodbye To Some Old Cameras

By Kary Schumpert

Recently, I dusted my cameras and almost got buried in a camera avalanche as some of the neck straps got tangled on the shelf. In the narrow escape, I noticed that some of the c...

5 October, 2025

Make Sense (or: Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder)

By Andrea Monti

I am a big fan of Jim Hall. A god of the Jazz Olympus, he was an amazing guitar player and played (i.e. lived) according to a simple but effective maxim: make musical sense. He ...

2 October, 2025

VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions

By Hamish Gill

I have for a while now been meaning to find a way to restart having chats with photographers I have become friends with through the website. I loved making the occasional videos...

14 September, 2025

Human Photography – My Definition and my Work

By Alexandre Kreisman

You might ask is what Human Photography or even what does it mean! It’s both simple and a bit complicated, as things always are with me… Let me take you back a coupl...

8 September, 2025

From Analog Photography to Digital and Back – A Journey to Find Meaning in Non-Professional Photography

By Giacomo Cecot

In 2005, I picked up my first real camera: a Ricoh 500G. It had been lying around the house for years—it was the same camera my mother had used to take all the photos we have, o...

7 September, 2025

A Question of a Question of Colour

By Derek Hope

While soaking up the streets of Montreal, I had been very excited to visit the Leica Boutique. I was eager to browse their collection and chew the fat about cameras with exotic ...

30 August, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – Part 2 – Embracing Colours

By Martin H

This is the second part of my article, Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey. If you haven’t read the first part yet, I recommend doing so — it provides useful background, h...

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