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13 August, 2022

The Lost Art of Film Street Photography – By Armando Cabellero

By Armando Caballero

I know that the title of this article might sound a bit surprising. Specially because nowadays, film photography is experiencing an unprecedented resurgence and also because the...

4 August, 2022

Truth and Beauty in Film – By John-Paul Menez

By John-Paul Menez

It was my first time in West Texas. Georgia O’Keeffe once said she, “couldn’t believe Texas was real…the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Spe...

31 July, 2022

Why I Prefer to use Film for my Street Photography – By Armando Caballero

By Armando Caballero

Street photography is what I love to do the most. If I could, I would go out there every single day of my life and take pictures of the world around me. But there is still one t...

28 July, 2022

Shooting the “Callahan” Way – By Dave Powell

By Dave Powell

My wife Kate and I discovered the American photographer Harry Callahan in 2010, when we visited this exhibit at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. Callahan’s often ex...

20 June, 2022

“Half of the Photos are Blurred” – the Time I Nearly Gave a Client a Full Refund

By Hamish Gill

I’ve just read an article on Digital Camera World about a couple in the states who complained about “irreversible distortion” in a family and engagement shoot. It reminded me of...

12 June, 2022

The Life and Death of a Ricoh KR-30sp Program – By John Pemberton

By John Pemberton

That isn’t really what this article was supposed to be titled. If things had gone differently it would have been “Last of the Kodachrome”. My life with 35mm photography began ...

6 June, 2022

Hiking the Uncanny Valley – By Don Goodman-Wilson

By Don Goodman-Wilson

When creating the above image, I sought a very specific aesthetic, one informed by years of enjoying video games. Indeed, friends have told me they thought this image was a high...

1 June, 2022

How I came to shoot Nikon cameras – By Hasse Gustafsson

By Hans Gustafsson

Actually, it might as well have been Minoltas. My best friends older brother had a Minolta X-700 that instilled a great deal of envy in me. The year was 1982 and I was at the ti...

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